August 1, 2012 - 3400 Women and a couple of Men at Showcase in Minneapolis

My friend, Mary Mora, and I left for Showcase 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday, August 1, 2012.  Mary's husband, Jim, was gracious enough to run us out to Denver International Airport to catch our 7:00 am flight at 5:00 am.  Mary couldn't find her glasses and Jim kept saying "it's too early, it's too early" but we made it in plenty of time.  Mary came to a Creative Memories crop with me in Denver this past April that had over 1,100 in attendance, so she knew we like to congregate in large numbers, but I'm not exactly sure she was ready for 3,400 of us in one place!

We arrived in Minneapolis about 10:00 am where we were escorted to our hotel on one of the CM busses.  We were fortunate enough to get checked in to our room at 11:00 am which gave us plenty of time to get out to the Mall of America for some fun!  We took the light rail from downtown Minneapolis to Bloomington where the mall is located.  Four floors of shopping available to all who care to go, plus an amusement park in the middle of the mall! 

Here is Mary in front of the Lego display...the guy in the background is made out of Legos! 

Here's a helicopter with a guy being airlifted!  Amazing. 

Everything in this display was made from Legos!

We ate lunch first and then started at the top of the mall and worked our way down to the first floor where we met some CM friends for dinner at 6:30 pm at Tucci Bennuch's. 

Here is Tami Worthington eating her appetizer...creme brulee!  Great food and FUN people!

After dinner we headed back to our hotel on the light rail.