The borg have nothing on the wonder that is Rhinebeck. While I’m still recovering from the two day extravaganza, I thought I’d quickly post some photos of both the event.
But first, Thursday night I saw Stitchy at Stix-n-Stitches in Montclair. Here she is showing us items from the travelling trunk of fuglies. She’s as funny in person as she is on her blog.
So, the festival. Saturday morning, after breakfast, I piled the monkeys into the car and headed north for the Dutchess County Fairgrounds. After a drive of some 90 miles we arrived. The pushing of the stroller got old somewhat fast. We met up with Nancy and Maribel shortly after arriving at 11am. The barns were too crowded for me to do much shopping, but as I was going back on Sunday sans stroller, I didn’t feel too badly about it.
I do have to add as an aside that I was so totally ticked off by the attitude that so many fellow fairgoers showed towards the stroller. I got so many looks that shouted that I had alot of nerve showing up with it. People were rude, obnoxious and inconsiderate, not to mention oblivious wandering right in front of the beheamouth that doesn’t exactly stop on a dime. I said "excuse me" until my voice was gone and even had one woman tell me "there are other people here, you could say excuse me". I laid into her and was nicely backed up by her wandering companion that I had indeed said excuse me. Bitch. The attitude that one shouldn’t go to an event like this if one has to push a stroller is downright wrong. How about the old slow people, huh? Are they more welcome than the strollers? Or the people with canes? They are as much "in the way" as the strollers. Should they stay home too? The intolerance is really ticking me off.
There, that’s out of my system.
When the little ones, who were so unexpectedly wonderful for the day, got impatient, we parted company with Nancy and Maribel. Passing Juno and Stephanie, we made our way around the big barn quickly and then back outside. We met up with commenter extraordinaire: Rachel H! She was so sweet, bringing the twins each a teddy bear wearing a Doodlebops t-shirt! Thank you again Rachel! The kids love the bears and sleep with them every night.
The blogger meetup was definitely the highlight of the day, and the reason I went up on Saturday, even though I’d have to bring the kids for it. The sea of bloggers just totally weirded out the grups and I heard several query as to what we being sold in the middle of the crowd! While the meetup last year was fab, the addition of the Blogger Bingo made it even cooler. Not only license to, but compulsion to go introduce and meet as many people as one could meet. I finally was able to put real faces to a lot of names (not only during the meetup but over the course of the two days) and that has made for a much richer experience.
This is only a small representation of the vast number of bloggers who attended this thing. With my stroller situated in the middle of this crowd, I was able to get BINGO on the I column of my card! WOOT. Anyway, it was a great event and worth the trip.
I made exactly on purchase (besides the entrance fee and food) on Saturday. Predominantly because the crowds wouldn’t let me get near a majority of the booths with the stroller. I did pick up a batt from Grafton Fibers in a purple to pink range (that I spun today, but that is for another posting ).
Exhausted from all the walking and pushing of the blasted stroller up and down the hills, I loaded the monkeys into the car at around 4 and sat in some 20 minutes of traffic waiting to get off the fairgrounds. The monkeys and I went to bed early that night!
I’ll leave Sunday’s trip and resulting stash expansion for tomorrow’s posting!
Craft on!
