This is the best I could muster up as far as show pictures. Ironic huh, since I am getting a rep for posting knife shots. I was so busy with taking it all in that I forgot I had a camera most of the time.

Folks milling around the table and filling out cards for the drawing. Tony is standing there on the corner, my wife Danna is seated next to him and across the table from Tony is Elliot(blues).


a shot showing the card stacks next to knives on Tony's half of the table


Here you can see all the Bose knives and their growing stacks of cards


Reese and RandyW lookin over the situation.


Randy cheesin over his Bose Knives in a Box(I should come up with a waiver for that too


This shot is just minutes away from the drawing time. The crowd got so thick that it did get hotter like was mentioned in another thread. It is amazing how much attention these drawings get. Notice how high the card stacks got next to each knife(lower right corner) Maker John Frap was in the isle across from the Bose table and said that the stacks were double the height of last years.


During the drawings, they take a stack of cards and throw them in a box and someone from the crowd pulls a card. Here Tony is reading the name but eventually a town cryer was employed due to the sound suck in that room.


She looks like she was making a wish as she is handed that card to Tony, "oh please be mine please be mine please be mine." Her wish wasn't granted but someone else was made very happy.