Adventures in the Windy city

The show in Chicago was awesome. I didn't get to see very much of the downtown because each time we came into the city I was in the back of the SUPER VAN which doesn't offer a great view....... I was able to see a little bit of downtown while waiting to catching the train to Indiana to visit Vanessa.

When I left Utah on Thursday March 10th it as 63 degrees..... when  I landed in Chicago later that afternoon it was like 35................ BRRRRRRR. I was so happy I was able to meet Simone at the airport and we took the shuttle to the hotel together to meet the crew.

We where sat near the window and it was COOOLD.

The show in Chicago is the biggest beauty show in the mid-west.We had to go in the day before to set up our booth(s). Ya, we had 3 booths!!! 2 make-up and 1 lotion booth. It seemed to take forever..... but we made it through.

I looove beauty shows. As an Esthetician I was excited to um... take advantage of the booths and offers available to me while I was working hard.

Check out our amazing collections of pigments!! These colors are amazing and blend so well. 

Happy hour at our booth!! What, what!!!!  Ya that is right we are able to have a drink or two while working.... Have I mentioned I LOVE my job?

Ya this is a serial killers dream come true right here! 9 girls in the back of a van. This is how we commuted to and from the show like this each day. It is a good thing I love these guys otherwise this would be no bueno.

Of course I earned a new nickname over the course of the weekend...... I am now known as 1.5.(referring to my lungs) Yup..... that is right they make fun of my infirmity.... can you feel the love? well it is a good thing I could. :) I have been called a lot worse than 1.5 so I shall accept this name proudly.

I am not sure how or why but after a very long day we went to dinner after the show. An exhausted Samiee apparently equals an attractive Samiee?? In the past this has not proven to be true but apparently in Chicago things are a bit backwards..... so we are sat down to dinner and I was chatting with the guys at the table next to us. As we sat down these guys where already on the desert portion of their meal.... Simone and I where eyeballing their yummy deserts and the one guy must have seen us drooling because he offered the remaining desert to us..... I am not sure why but we accepted. Ya, we took a strange mans dessert....not just any desert.... bread pudding (GAG). I did not partake of this treat because the thought of soggy bread makes me want to dry heave but we shared this treat with our group. Our boss Peter thought these guys had sent over a dessert instead of the traditional drink..... when I told him the guy gave us his left overs he was shocked and said, "I ATE SOME STRANGE MAN'S BREAD PUDDING?!?!?!?!"  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA it was an epic moment for sure.

After the show I took a train to Indiana  to visit my best friend Vanessa. It was a long overdue trip. They moved out there in 2009 and I am just now making it out :/...... I was only able to be there for a couple days but we made the best of them. I love my friends because we can go weeks and months without talking and when we get together we pick up just where we left off. It is amazing.