It's official.
We had a
BLAST!
was simply put: wonderful.
We started out early to get a jump on all the shoppers heading that way.
It was pretty doggone smart of us to book a U-haul trailer ahead of time since we have a tendancy to junk along the way to the show.....
We enjoy finding new places and things all along the way. It's also great fun to hit those spots where you know you'll find all the best food and finds.
Our fave food stop whilst in Spokane is
which has the deadliest drinks, delicious dinners....and most decadant desserts.
Another new find is
a great destination shopping experience in Spokane.
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| ( Some crazy Instagram photos of our stops to and from the show.) |
After toodling around for a few days on the way to the show, we headed out from the hotel bright and early to wait in the early buy ticket line.
(Our lovely Mother was kind enough to buy our tickets online way back in September of 2011 for our birthday gifts! Yay Mom!!! It was an awesome gift! )
Sadly,
it was raining buckets when the line was forming, but again...mom saved the day with umbrellas!
This is the tiny 300 person line....the 5,000+ line was elsewhere, and I was happy NOT to be in it!
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| (L-R. Carrie our sister, Jan our mom & partner, La Von sister partner, Kim manager.) |
Yes, we were hoping for sunshine...but instead tried not to drown in the deluge of rain &.....
....not to drown in the fun deluge of
J U N K!!!
I had to nab this hilarious striped flotation device for the shop soon after entering the show.
I might've been able to use it out in that line....oh well.
It's a good thing I grabbed it when I did, I was attacked
(I won't name names...you know who you are ;)
by one woman in particular and many others who loved its charm and character.
It looks smashing in our beach display right now!
:D
The booth displays were chock full and fabulous as always!
Happy Customers were everywhere!
There are just too many booths to list....this one was pretty fab however!
Oh yes....& this one too....
Honestly....the coolest display in the whole show.
I mean who THINKS to turn an old truck bed into a shelf for ironstone???
Freakin' awesome!
;D
After we had
WAY TOO MUCH FUN BUYING JUNK
we got the dirty job of not only hauling the stuff out to the parking lot....but unloading the stuff we had already purchased along the way, & then reloading the new stuff too!
It was quite a load!
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| ( La Von ponders the crazyness of our decisions.....) |
I had faith however and kept saying:
" I know it's all gonna fit....I just know it!"
BUT,
there came a moment when I was doubting......
Yes, it's true....
you'll never believe what happened.....
We cleared the parking lot....were left there alone while everyone went off and partied the night away.
We eventually got the sink into the Escalade....and headed off to Chaps for dinner and drinks.
It was an amazing day to say the least.
One we want to repeat again next year if possible!
We're gathering people to join our team of wild women junkers....
....maybe you'll wanna join in on the fun next year???
Hooo-rahhhhh!
;)
Trish
&
The Grandiflora Girls
xx
