Besides the Nicky Boehme and Thomas Kinkade puzzles I purchased right after getting the puzzle roll, I also got these other two puzzles as well.  The Vegas, Baby! puzzle was actually the second puzzle I started on after I finished the You’d Better Be Good puzzle by Nick Boehme.

I was about three quarters of the way done with it when we moved from our house in Lake Mary, FL to a rental house while we were waiting for our new home in Mt. Dora to be built.  I didn’t realize it at the time, but the puzzle roll with this puzzle on it got put on the moving truck with no box or anything to protect the pieces from falling out if they happened to get loose.  Ever since then, I have been afraid to re-open the roll and finish the puzzle because I’m almost positive there will be missing pieces.  However, after pulling the puzzle box out this morning to take a picture of it for this blog, I thought…you know, you should just finish it and see what the actual damage is because you’re so close to being done.  So, I am going to try finishing it soon and see how many pieces are actually missing.  Worst case scenario, I can try getting the jigsaw doctor to recreate a couple of missing pieces, or perhaps my friend Tom in the USVI could help me out if there’s not too many missing.  It’s a nice picture of the Strip and I would really like to have it complete so I can hang it up on the wall in my puzzle room.

2,000 pc. – Las Vegas, Baby! – Buffalo Games

While we were in the rental house in FL, I got the New York City puzzle below as a way to pass time while the house was being built.  Because I still had the Vegas, Baby! puzzle on the puzzle roll, I couldn’t put this on it, and therefore, never finished it.  Had to pull it apart when we moved from the rental into the new house.  One day, I will get back to it.

The puzzle comes in a really cute little travel suitcase.

Skyline scene of New York City.

Inside the New York City suitcase.