Road trip and quilt sandwiches

This is a long post, but I will try to make is short as I can. This is Women In Construction (WIC) Week. Yesterday 25 of the women in the company I work for, took a road trip to visit three of our job sites. Many of the office ladies don't get to go out to job sites and it was an opportunity for all of us to see different ones. First, we went to a renovation project for a courthouse. This is the original courthouse and an addition that was built. I don't know the dates, but in this picture the original looks turn of the century.

The renovation is going on mostly in the addition. They had to install an elevator by first digging the elevator pit in the basement and cutting holes thru three floors. There was a lot of steel that had to be added to carry the loads.

This is where the public can come to pay tickets and do other business. There will be three bulletproof windows and those things sticking out will be for ledges so you could set your stuff on like paperwork. The room on the other side will be for the clerks.

Here is a kitchenette outside the judge's office

The judge's restroom

What the finishes will look like in the judge's office

This is the judge's courtroom. There is another courtroom that is bigger.

Next we headed to Cleveland and ate lunch. I had a bowl of black bean chicken chili which was very good. I forgot to take a picture before I started destroying it! LOL!

a cheeseburger which was one of the best I have ever had! I could only eat 2/3rds of it, so I wrapped the rest up and had it for dinner. Look at the beautiful toast on that bun!

For dessert, which I had to save for later, they had cookies. We had been sent the menu a couple days before so I needed to know what a five dollar cookie tasted like. I got the peanut brittle cookie, and it was very good. They also had oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip. Look at the size of it!

After lunch we headed to the next job which was renovating a building for Cleveland State University. It is a 1920s building and is a dorm. It is 21 stories with the dorm rooms from floor 4 thru 19. There is a lot of repair work that needs to be done on the exterior which was well underway. Then all the dorm rooms are being renovated including adding new bathrooms.  

Here is a view of downtown Cleveland from the 19th floor.

There were still many 1920 details in the lower 4 floors in what I would call general public type areas and elevator lobbies. The plaster work in what will be the game room for the students is stunning!  All the furniture is from the building and will be reused.

I was taken aback by the crazy floor in the lobby restroom. I am assuming it is vintage.

The ladies running the WIC road trip had put together goodie bags for each of us. I took most of it to work today for the guys.

By the time I got home I was pretty tired from being bounced around in that bus all day. I heated up my leftover burger for dinner and ate 3/4th of the cookie. I managed to muster up enough energy to quilt three pieces for curved top pouches.

I was asked which thread bed I kept. I kept one of the flaming scissors since I already had made myself a project bag out of that fabric. Making the two thread beds used up almost all of that fabric. I just have a few scraps left. I should have bought more! LOL!!