Yzerbear19
I'm beautifully tragic - Elphaba (Wicked)
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My sister and I went to the Great American Scrapbook convention in Grand Rapids, MI on Friday and Saturday. This was our first convention and we were a little disappointed. We both expected that there would be more. We spent lots of money though! There were some interesting things, but overall it was kind of disappointing. We only spent an hour there the first day since it was just the two of us and we would go again on Saturday with our sister-in-law.
We did decide to go to the crop on Friday night. This was also a first time experience for us. We were shocked to see people bringing in 5 or 6 large totes with stuff. It seemed some brought everything but the kitchen sink. We felt very inadequate because I only brought what we would need to minimize the amount of luggage we were taking. We each has specific pages to work on and got done the pages we had brought to work on. There was one group of people who brought a ton of stuff, but I don't think we saw them work on a single page the entire 3 hours we were there. There were a few interesting items in the goodie bag they handed out so we both felt we got our money's worth.
Saturday was sort of chaotic since my oldest brother and his wife were going to meet us in the morning and we would go to the convention with her while he would wait at our hotel for our other brother who was driving from Detroit to go to a concert with us on Saturday night. My oldest brother and his wife left later then they said they were going to. We had got up early to go to breakfast, etc and be ready by the time they got there. We ended up going back to the hotel and napping after breakfast at Bob Evans. BTW, the Banana Pecan Caramel waffles at Bob Evans are AWESOME! So once they showed up the three of us left. Well my one brother decided since the other said he would be there about noon, that he would go get a bite to eat. So while at the convention brother #2 calls asking where #1 is. Well brother #2 is hungry so I gave him some directions to some food and shopping that we had found the day before that wasn't too far from the hotel. Brother #1 calls about 20 minutes later and asks if #2 has shown up. Oy. And neither of them has the other one's cell phone number, so I'm stuck in the middle. We finish up at the convention and go back to the hotel. Brother #1 is there and about 15 minutes later, #2 shows up. Brother #1 and his wife leave after chatting for about 20 minutes, so we chat with #2 for a while then go to lunch.
We ended up at Fazoli's and in the parking lot next to the restaurant was some sort of shady dealings. It was really strange and very odd and involved a car. Very weird.
We went back then to the hotel and went swimming. There were 5 kids in the pool with the oldest being no more than 13 or 14 and not one adult anywhere to be seen. The littlest one was probably 3 or 4 and no one was watching him. He was jumping in and out of the pool, nearly hitting his head on the side at least twice that I saw. The mother finally came down and had the kids get out. We had thought about going to tell someone at the front desk, but after they left it looked like they knew the person at the front desk. I was just shocked that someone would let their kids go swimming without any supervision. I felt especially bad for the little boy because no one cared what he was doing. He could have run out one of the open doors to the outside and into the parking lot and I don't think any of those kids would have noticed. We were happy once they left because we then had the pool to ourselves.
After swimming and the hot tub we went up to the room to change and get ready for the concert.
It was Triple Play Concert: Collective Soul, LIVE, and the Counting Crows. I've seen LIVE 2 times before and the Counting Crows 6 or 7 times before, so I knew it was going to be good.
Collective Soul was OK. They only played for 45 minutes though, but they didn't play the ONE song I wanted to hear. The ones that they did play were good, but they left out my favorite one. Oh well.
LIVE totally rocked. The way the concert was set up was the stage was set up at Second base and they had part of the infield set up so that you could go down and watch the concert from there. It was all general admission so you could go down and watch for a bit then go find a seat or whatever. We went down to the "pit" for some of LIVE. The best was when the lead singer, Ed, took off his shirt for "Lakini's Juice."
The Counting Crows were amazing!!! We went down for "Mr. Jones" which is my FAVORITE song. Adam looked GREAT! He was a lot heavier last year when we seen them in Detroit. He messed up "Long December," which provided an amusing moment. Their new song they played was soooo awesome, I wish it was November!!!
After it was over we were out of the stadium and back at our hotel in under 15 minutes. I got some decent photos and I fully intend to do some layouts. I think the "RockStar" Stack from DCWV would be perfect!
The rest of my concert pics can be found here:
http://members.aol.com/Yzerbear19/Concert/
This morning my sister and I got up early and went swimming before breakfast, which was really nice because for part of the time we had it all to ourselves. We had breakfast at IHOP. Then brother #2 helped us load up the car and we checked out. He headed back for Detroit, but we headed for a mall in Grand Rapids to go to Build A Bear since i had $20 gift certificates to spend there. After that though we headed home.
It was fun. On Friday we did go and find Pages in Time in Jenison, MI. WOW! What an awesome store. My sister spent $50 pretty quickly on Disney stuff . They had one of the best selection of Disney stuff that I've seen, much more than any of the stores in our area. We were going to go to Scrap, Scribble 'n' Stick, but decided not to because we didn't want to be tempted with spending more. If we ever go back to Grand Rapids, we are definitely going to Pages in Time, though it was a bit confusing to find.
OK. That is my lovely little trip report, with probably way more information than you wanted to know!
Woud I go again to the Great American Scrapbook Convention - maybe, but probably only for one day and not both days. We didn't do any of the classes, but if we were go again we might do one or two of those.
It was a fun weekend overall.
Scrapbooking and excellent music, who could ask for a better weekend!
We did decide to go to the crop on Friday night. This was also a first time experience for us. We were shocked to see people bringing in 5 or 6 large totes with stuff. It seemed some brought everything but the kitchen sink. We felt very inadequate because I only brought what we would need to minimize the amount of luggage we were taking. We each has specific pages to work on and got done the pages we had brought to work on. There was one group of people who brought a ton of stuff, but I don't think we saw them work on a single page the entire 3 hours we were there. There were a few interesting items in the goodie bag they handed out so we both felt we got our money's worth.
Saturday was sort of chaotic since my oldest brother and his wife were going to meet us in the morning and we would go to the convention with her while he would wait at our hotel for our other brother who was driving from Detroit to go to a concert with us on Saturday night. My oldest brother and his wife left later then they said they were going to. We had got up early to go to breakfast, etc and be ready by the time they got there. We ended up going back to the hotel and napping after breakfast at Bob Evans. BTW, the Banana Pecan Caramel waffles at Bob Evans are AWESOME! So once they showed up the three of us left. Well my one brother decided since the other said he would be there about noon, that he would go get a bite to eat. So while at the convention brother #2 calls asking where #1 is. Well brother #2 is hungry so I gave him some directions to some food and shopping that we had found the day before that wasn't too far from the hotel. Brother #1 calls about 20 minutes later and asks if #2 has shown up. Oy. And neither of them has the other one's cell phone number, so I'm stuck in the middle. We finish up at the convention and go back to the hotel. Brother #1 is there and about 15 minutes later, #2 shows up. Brother #1 and his wife leave after chatting for about 20 minutes, so we chat with #2 for a while then go to lunch.
We ended up at Fazoli's and in the parking lot next to the restaurant was some sort of shady dealings. It was really strange and very odd and involved a car. Very weird.
We went back then to the hotel and went swimming. There were 5 kids in the pool with the oldest being no more than 13 or 14 and not one adult anywhere to be seen. The littlest one was probably 3 or 4 and no one was watching him. He was jumping in and out of the pool, nearly hitting his head on the side at least twice that I saw. The mother finally came down and had the kids get out. We had thought about going to tell someone at the front desk, but after they left it looked like they knew the person at the front desk. I was just shocked that someone would let their kids go swimming without any supervision. I felt especially bad for the little boy because no one cared what he was doing. He could have run out one of the open doors to the outside and into the parking lot and I don't think any of those kids would have noticed. We were happy once they left because we then had the pool to ourselves.
After swimming and the hot tub we went up to the room to change and get ready for the concert.
It was Triple Play Concert: Collective Soul, LIVE, and the Counting Crows. I've seen LIVE 2 times before and the Counting Crows 6 or 7 times before, so I knew it was going to be good. Collective Soul was OK. They only played for 45 minutes though, but they didn't play the ONE song I wanted to hear. The ones that they did play were good, but they left out my favorite one. Oh well.
LIVE totally rocked. The way the concert was set up was the stage was set up at Second base and they had part of the infield set up so that you could go down and watch the concert from there. It was all general admission so you could go down and watch for a bit then go find a seat or whatever. We went down to the "pit" for some of LIVE. The best was when the lead singer, Ed, took off his shirt for "Lakini's Juice."
The Counting Crows were amazing!!! We went down for "Mr. Jones" which is my FAVORITE song. Adam looked GREAT! He was a lot heavier last year when we seen them in Detroit. He messed up "Long December," which provided an amusing moment. Their new song they played was soooo awesome, I wish it was November!!!
After it was over we were out of the stadium and back at our hotel in under 15 minutes. I got some decent photos and I fully intend to do some layouts. I think the "RockStar" Stack from DCWV would be perfect!
The rest of my concert pics can be found here:
http://members.aol.com/Yzerbear19/Concert/
This morning my sister and I got up early and went swimming before breakfast, which was really nice because for part of the time we had it all to ourselves. We had breakfast at IHOP. Then brother #2 helped us load up the car and we checked out. He headed back for Detroit, but we headed for a mall in Grand Rapids to go to Build A Bear since i had $20 gift certificates to spend there. After that though we headed home.
It was fun. On Friday we did go and find Pages in Time in Jenison, MI. WOW! What an awesome store. My sister spent $50 pretty quickly on Disney stuff . They had one of the best selection of Disney stuff that I've seen, much more than any of the stores in our area. We were going to go to Scrap, Scribble 'n' Stick, but decided not to because we didn't want to be tempted with spending more. If we ever go back to Grand Rapids, we are definitely going to Pages in Time, though it was a bit confusing to find.
OK. That is my lovely little trip report, with probably way more information than you wanted to know!
Woud I go again to the Great American Scrapbook Convention - maybe, but probably only for one day and not both days. We didn't do any of the classes, but if we were go again we might do one or two of those. It was a fun weekend overall.
Scrapbooking and excellent music, who could ask for a better weekend!
