It Tuesday evening, just past midnight my time and a little past nine pm Vegas time.
The flight out to Vegas was comfortable and a nice flight. I had five hours to reflect on meeting Peter (my brother) at McCarren airport. About a week ago I had suggested that he pick me up at the airport on his way to Las Vegas. Peter agreed and the time was coming to and end when we finally would meet in person.
For the last three weeks we've been chatting on and off. With most of the calls was more about getting to know each other a little better, what we've done, where we've been, and what's happening now. Additional over the last two weeks I've been doing some additional digging on Ancestry for additional relatives that may know more about our birth parents.
I was able to connect and speak with one niece, one nephew and hear about a half brother that resides in Florida. On one of those phone calls I found out that Peter and I are already rich! Rich is new family that is, seems we have many great nieces and great nephews that are spread all across the United States. In addition I was able to put some pieces of the puzzle together as to why we were adopted. Those pieces was something that I was prepared for. I won't get into them here, but can attest that both Peter and I have wonderful and caring parents that adopted us many years ago. Peter's father is alive and well, while both my parents had passed many years ago.
I asked Peter to meet me at the baggage area that Monday night. Because he was not familiar with the layout of the airport I opted to find him at the pick up waiting area. In one of our phone calls Peter had described the car that he drives, sure enough the car and Peter were ready and waiting. I knocked on the window and there we were. Face to face, both of us thinking holy crap, we can't believe the resemblance. We didn't spend much time together since it was past 1AM for me and we also planned to spend the day together tomorrow. We had some small talk and had a great big Bro hug and tomorrow would be another day.
I was up at the crack of dawn because of the time difference (something I normally don't do). I took some time at the hotel, cup of coffee, check my emails, send some emails and then placed a call to Peter. Peter was staying near Freemont Street while I was on the south side. The call to Peter went right to voice mail, okay I thought he's on his time, and I'll wait a bit. Another hour passed and the call went to voice mail again. All righty then, let me wait a little longer. It was about 9:30AM when we finally connected. Peter's phone ran out of juice on the overnight. He stated he would be a little bit, however I'm not the waiting type and hopped on the monorail that would take me to the Stratosphere Hotel. I figured a short walk to Freemont Street from there. Well that short walk was 3 miles! Peter called a few times and I stated I can see the Golden Nugget, I'll be there soon.
I finally arrived at the Golden Nugget maybe somewhere around 11AM. We then went to Binion's to grab a bite to eat. One of the questions I has to ask was "do you feel like you're looking at the mirror when we're talking?" Peter agreed the resemblance is pretty remarkable and the bond we've built in one afternoon is pretty amazing. We shared pictures, stories, laughs and had some good times today. We ended the night arriving back at the MGM for dinner. It still amazes me that we are so much alike and share many other things.
At dinner I did run into Steve from Innovolt, Steve stated, "is this your brother?' I exclaimed YES it is and introduced Peter.
A little later I had ran into Earl Everson, saw a few others fellow P4P'ers that were engaged in a lively discussion. I decided it was time to turn in and get ready for tomorrow at ITEX.
Tomorrow night, I'll be posting up some ITEX stuff and I'll be seeing Peter later in the day.
-=Good Selling=-
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