PASADENA

I will be posting several blogs at one time whenever I get somewhere with a wifi connection, but I need to start writing now.  Today, Friday, we went to Pasadena to the Pasadena bead show.  This is a show I've always seen advertised but not willing to drive to SoCal to go to it.  This time since we were already here, I persuaded john too with me.   The first good thing that happenedw as before we left home and I found free tickets on the Internet.  The second good thing that happened was that after we arrived in Pasadena I found a free parking place less than a block from the site at the Hilton, where they charged $6 for valet parking.  The first bad thing that happened was that the tickets in printed out from the Internet turned out to be from last year.  But the people at the desk were nice and let me pay and John got in free.  Do they know their market or what?  Worked out for the because eventually he had to go move the car so I could stay a half hour longer.   And of course spent more money.  

Not really that much different from other bead shows, perhaps a bit bigger and I'd say about 50 percent of the same vendors who come to Sacramento.  I was able to find some seed beads that I had  not been able to find at home after I got a project half done.    Plus I got two really cool focal beads.  This show also had a lot of clothing and other made up stuff, but I didn't really look at it since I was trying to get through the whole show before my 2 hour parking expired.  

After we left the bead show we went looking for a furniture store we used to like, but it seems to be gone.  But on the way, we discovered a Lee's Sandwich shop.  This is our favorite place to get Vietnamese bahn mi sandwiches.  They used to have a place in sacramento, but it closed.  So now I'm a double happy camper.  

We visited the dealer we bought our dining room rug from, with the idea we might find a rug for our new upstairs room, but didn't see much.  

So we went down to Fair Oaks Ave. And visited four antique shops.  

Came back to Bill and Vera's tonight.