Last weekend Dan and I were in the Northbrook Mall in a northern Chicago suburb for a Green Life Expo.  Unfortunately, the event itself wasn't managed well - wasn't any promotion, and we didn't get any traffic.  But on the plus side:

1.  We got to meet several of our colleagues from the Chicago area who helped staff the booth (Hi Rich, Bill, Caron, Cheri and Jen!)   That was the definite highlight of the weekend!

2.  I bought some clothes at a nearby Anne Taylor store (they had good prices in petites)

3.  We did sign up several of the other vendors... and a few passerbys.

The Lesson learned is to do more research before we commit to and pay for these types of events!

Dan is lining up more events in ChicagoLand for October.  I have mom duty 3 out of the four weekends... so am likely to not be doing the shows with him -but we now know a number of folks in Chicago who can help out!