Back Again

So, yesterday we drove up to the conference. We'd planned to stay overnight in Visalia but changed our minds when both our first and second hotel rooms turned out to have backed up toilets. The first room smelled like it was not the first time this had happened, either. The second room's front door was so badly warped that we had to body-slam it to get it shut. This was supposedly a three-star hotel. Yeah. Right. We were so out of there.

Rather than try to find another hotel - most were booked up for the weekend - we decided just to drive back home. Three hours up there, two hours to visit the vendors, one hour to decide we will never stay at another Days Inn, and three hours back home. We walked in the door almost exactly 12 hours after we left.

Was it worth it? YES! I made a few, select purchases (read "didn't spend a lot of $$"), checked out the guild's booth, and talked to some nice people. Dick got to see what the vendors were offering, what people were buying, and a (fairly small, unfortunately) selection of different wheels.

The Guild's "Blooming Cotton" booth, featuring a variety of scarves made by members, was (in my unbiased opinion) the best one there. My two scarves were on the back wall - including the one in Schaefer Yarn's 'Laurel' (100% Pima cotton) that I forgot to take a photo of back in January; Vickie's scarf was front and center, draped along the front of the booth. My purchases included a conference bag (top photo), red, white and blue silk hankies (eat your heart out, Vickie!), and cones of estate sale yarn - the light green is cotton and rayon; the other two are silk noil. Score!