Getting Ready to go
My flights have been confirmed, hotels booked, suitcase packed - well, not quite, but at least I know what I'm putting in it. This week is the week of my annual pilgrimage to Columbus for the summer TNNA show. You know, the place that's bigger than 4 football fields, just full of yarn, needles, and everything else one needs to knit or crochet with.
This will be my 7th time attending this show, and I never get tired of it. However, this year I'm doing it differently. I'm not driving to Ohio, I'm flying. I'm not staying in a budget hotel, I'm staying in the fancy pants hotel attached to the convention centre. For four whole nights! It sounds more like a vacation than a work thing, doesn't it.
Driving wasn't really an option for me this year. Some of you know I've been troubled with what I thought was simply a case of vertigo. It turns out that the bang on my head last December was a little more serious than I thought, and I have something called "post concussion syndrome". My doctor asked me, very nicely, to curtail my driving activities, so 11 hour driving marathons were out of the question. When I was waffling between going and not going to TNNA, I checked flight and hotel packages, and discovered there wasn't much difference in cost to fly. So, that's when I booked my trip.
This all means I will be out of the shop from Thursday morning, June 9th and will be back in the shop the following Tuesday June 14th. There is just one small detail I have yet to figure out...how to bring back all the samples, brochures, etc one picks up at a show. I was thinking of packing in a small suitcase, and then putting it inside a larger one to travel to the convention, and then I can pack all my show stuff into the larger suitcase for the trip home. You just have no idea how much stuff I collect at this convention!
This will be my 7th time attending this show, and I never get tired of it. However, this year I'm doing it differently. I'm not driving to Ohio, I'm flying. I'm not staying in a budget hotel, I'm staying in the fancy pants hotel attached to the convention centre. For four whole nights! It sounds more like a vacation than a work thing, doesn't it.
Driving wasn't really an option for me this year. Some of you know I've been troubled with what I thought was simply a case of vertigo. It turns out that the bang on my head last December was a little more serious than I thought, and I have something called "post concussion syndrome". My doctor asked me, very nicely, to curtail my driving activities, so 11 hour driving marathons were out of the question. When I was waffling between going and not going to TNNA, I checked flight and hotel packages, and discovered there wasn't much difference in cost to fly. So, that's when I booked my trip.
This all means I will be out of the shop from Thursday morning, June 9th and will be back in the shop the following Tuesday June 14th. There is just one small detail I have yet to figure out...how to bring back all the samples, brochures, etc one picks up at a show. I was thinking of packing in a small suitcase, and then putting it inside a larger one to travel to the convention, and then I can pack all my show stuff into the larger suitcase for the trip home. You just have no idea how much stuff I collect at this convention!
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