Chicago Day 3 - Part 2

My mother was finished with her workshop and ready to go to the first of 3 miniatures shows. Here are some pics of her project at the end of the workshop:






That evening, my mother and I took a very expensive taxi ride over to Schaumburg to go to the opening night of the 3 Blind Mice Dollhouse & Miniatures show. The taxi ride over there was quite tense because our driver was a very nice Italian man who liked to talk with his hands – while driving! And he constantly looked in his rear view mirror to make sure we were listening and understanding what he was saying. All of this in rush-hour traffic – quite unnerving! We did, amazingly, get to the show in one piece. He only had to slam on the brakes once to keep from hitting the car in front of us :)

Here we are just after we got in the door. A very nice lady offered to take a picture of the two of us.


There were a lot of pretty miniatures there but I was very tired and just ended up finding places to sit and rest.





I could see a pond out the windows of the conference room where the show was so I went outside to sit for some more and caught a picture of the sun going down.


The ride back to the hotel was yet another adventure! Somehow, the dispatcher told the taxi driver ‘Ohare’ instead of ‘Marriot Ohare’. (or maybe he just didn't understand the dispatcher – who knows) We were already on our way into the airport when he asked us which flight we were taking. We were not paying attention to where we were going because we had been talking (and we didn't know our way around so we probably wouldn't have noticed anyway). We told him – no – no - we were not going to the airport but to the Marriott Ohare Hotel . So he drove around a bit more and took us to the Hilton at the airport. Again, we had to tell him that was not where we were going. My mother finally gave him the address of the Marriot Ohare – and he took us to the Marriot Suites – not the Hotel. Thankfully it was on the same street and not too far away but I had to tell him how to get there (luckily I had paid some attention when the Hotel Shuttle took us there the 1st day – it had stopped by the Marriot Suites before going to our Hotel.)
Quite an interesting couple of taxi rides!

Here is our trip back to the hotel. We simply needed to get from Point A to Point E!