Chicago Day 4 - Part 1

Day 4 – Opening day of the Independent Miniature Artisans show – in Schaumburg again, but this time we rode on a chartered big yellow school bus to get there! We were on the first bus of the day so everybody was very excited and the noise level was quite high.

It was interesting riding alongside the train that I had been riding on so often in the last 3 days!

Here we were:
Once we got to the show, we had to wait in a long line to get our tickets.

This show was larger than the 3 blind mice show and had even nicer items!




I took a little break from the show to look around the hotel:


This was when I began to realize just how famous my mother is in the miniatures world! She has a website ( www.wannainelpaso.com ) and she also does a lot of posting on different blogs (or groups or something – I'm not sure exactly where she posts) I forgot to mention that we had a hard time just getting to our taxi last night because a lady recognized her name and wanted to introduce her to her friends. Then, we came close to missing the first bus this morning for the same reason!
It hadn't occurred to me earlier to take pictures of these people but it hit me at this show - I should be recording this!
Here are some people who “knew” my mother:



After awhile we decided to go back to our hotel to rest up for the big show that night. The bus was late so I went around and took a couple of pictures (surprise, surprise!)



Here are some more people who knew my mother. They really did know her - not just by reputation - because they had met at a prior show:

Here are people waiting for the very late bus:

I didn't know quite what this thing was but later figured out it must be where they store road construction equipment or maybe snowplows because I saw another one on the highway. I thought it looked interesting.

We took the bus back to our hotel at about 2:30 and my mother went back to our room to take a nap and get ready for the Special Preview Night of the Chicago International Show that night.
I had gotten ahold of Adrianne again to see if she would be interested in going back downtown with me again to walk along the Magnificent Mile while my mother rested.
So we met again somewhere around 3 o'clock at the train station and off we went!