Sunday, Sept. 13 - It was our last day at Stitches, so we spent most of the morning getting ready to go and packing our things into the car. We moved the car to the Convention Center parking lot and headed into the Market for our last-minute browsing and to wait for the results of the final raffle. We didn't win any of the big prizes, but we did squeeze in some final purchases - some in sweater quantities, even! Mmm, some nice squishy Alpaca for me.We decided to stop for one last lunch in Schaumburg before we left and ended up at the nearby Weber Grill restaurant. After a pretty quick lunch we were on the road and we even followed the original directions to avoid the Chicago traffic this time. The trip home was pretty uneventful and we were home by sometime around 9pm after the time zone change.
Random trip notes:
- We're pretty much convinced that everyone in Schaumburg lives mostly on pretzel rolls and diet Pepsi! The diet Pepsi thing was probably just the convention center making a deal with Pepsi, but the pretzel rolls were at every meal - even at Weber Grill. Don't get me wrong, we had a lot of them and they were tasty, but it was getting a little crazy.
Remember how we didn't know exactly which direction Ikea was from our hotel? Turns out we could have known if we had really checked out the view from our hotel first. The blue and yellow building is pretty distinctive, but initially we weren't in our room very much and it was quite a bit off to the left so we didn't actually see it until the following day!
So there you go - all that you might have wanted to know about our Stitches adventure, and probably more! Now we really need to get to knitting some of our fabulous new yarn. And hopefully the timing will be better next time so that Sariebeth can join in on the fun, since it just wasn't the same without her!
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