Monday morning greetings! We're back to McCormick Place today for me to attend a panel discussion about memoirs and then tackle the exhibit hall. I'm going to try not to pick up too much junk - but who can resist a great tote bag?
Aren't they passing out free books?
More likely tomorrow, the last day, when the vendors are really trying to get rid of stuff so they don't have to ship it home.
Well, much to my surprise, I left my morning programs with 6 free books, all autographed. When I met Richard, we decided to bring my load back to the hotel and taxi up to the
Weber Grill Restaurant for a late lunch - it was great! We then got a Gale shuttle back to McCormick Place, a different route which I hoped would take us along the lakeshore. Instead we took the McCormick Place Bus Tunnel, which is down among the subway trains. Still no lake...
Anyway, we only had about an hour before the exhibits closed, but it was a fruitful hour for me. I sat down to listen to a vendor spiel and, in the drawing at the end, I won the door prize - a MuVo V100 mp3 player!
On the way home, we spent some time in the spectacular
Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago Public's main library. It restores my faith that not ALL urban main libraries have to be dumps.
From there, we stopped at Garret Popcorn to buy our "dinner" for later and got panhandled on our way out the door.