decide to leave before things get too weird. Ev-
eryone we meet is so nice! maybe the wife was
um .. a little too nice...
The convention is close to the hotel and we are
picked up and dropped off. The convention is
taking place at a sports complex and there is a
big bar in the middle of the convention, with a
massive chandelier that is constantly changing
colors, food vendors are located upstairs and
rows of tattoo artists. Not too big for their 1st
show but in the end Emily and Chris make great
money and our hosts are just fantastic. Not too
many people have booked to get tattoos and left deposits. I find this to
sometimes be common when we travel to Europe or South America.
My thoughts are that people don’t want to always send money to an art-
ists who is traveling in fear of the artist canceling. But booked and locked
in, Chris’s first appointment shows up and wants “Nothing Else Matters”
tattooed on his forearm. We have a stencil machine, copy machine and
other equipment readily available to us. Chris is ready to start the first
tattoo at the Sinti Ink Tattoo Convention and the moment that Chris is
about to start tattooing .. literally needle to skin... the Metallica song
“Nothing Else Matters” starts playing and we all loose it. What a moment!
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