Do you really want to know what happened on Day 3 in Columbus?

Day 3 really started the same as Day 2.  Breakfast in the hotel lobby, except this time we ate Cheese Danish along with the coffee, orange juice, hard boiled eggs, and English muffins (with butter and grape jelly on them).

Day 3 began with the bitter cold, like 6 degrees, so we just bundled up and braved the elements for the walk to the Convention Center.

This day was spent the same as yesterday:  visiting vendors, attending seminars, sampling food, yada yada yada.

One of our favorite tastes of the day was the Cheese Ravioli with Pesto Sauce and the Sausage Ravioli with Marinara sauce.  YUMMMMM.  We have requested a sample from our food distributor and plan on doing a trial run on it to see how successful it was.  It was incredibly delicious!

The hours for the food show today were 10:30 a.m. and ended at 4:30 p.m.....so we knew where we would be spending our entire day.

Of course you can't go to a trade show and not come home with bags of treasure that you will have to go through when you get home.  A collection of the samples and people we met.

 

 

That's another whole job just to go through those bags and sort through what we are really interested in.

We finally headed back to the hotel at the end of the show and just relaxed and napped for awhile before making plans for our last night in Columbus.

We headed for the North Market, which was supposed to be an eclectix mix of Farmer's market type stores, but by the time we got there most of the businesses had already closed.  Probably because all the crappy weather was keeping everyone home.  We ended up at Barley's again to get a couple of beers.  Paul had really liked their house Pilsner from the other evening and it was a warm and close place for us to make plans.  We ended up eating dinner here since it was their $5 jumbo make your own hotdog night.  How could we resist?

The evening's entertainment was going to be at Bernard's Tavern, where we expected to see some karaoke action.  We love to watch other's sing, but we prefer to just be spectators (we both know how bad we sing).

We had awesome service, awesome beer, awesome homemade potato chips, and some really great karaoke singers.  The night was getting late and it was freezing outside.....we opted to hire a taxi to take us the short distance back to our warm and snuggly hotel.

What a nice way to spend our last evening in this really cool little city.