Meeting Caleb Hanie, Steve McMichael and Earl Bennett

It has been a long time since I have written a blog so I figured I would go ahead and catch everyone up with my most recent autograph signing. I went with my dad back on October 29, to go meet Caleb Hanie and Earl Bennett of the current Chicago Bears as well as Steve McMichael of the 85' Bears. There were a lot of signings this day, but I wanted to get Hanie and Bennett for sure seeing I have never met them before. I actually already had Steve McMichael's autograph from a previous signing that my brother got for me. I got up early that morning and I was only planning on going to meet Earl Bennett, when I decided that we should try to get more than just Bennett. I woke my dad up and said lets get going over to this signing for Hanie. We got there at about ten o'clock in the morning and we were the second and third people there. Hanie wasn't there until 11, so we waited about an hour for him to arrive. It was at a Mitsubishi dealership in Countryside, so very close to my house. They had a lot of food there, as well as little footballs and candy for everyone that was there. He showed up and we got a couple of autographs for myself, my brother and my girlfriend. I always try to get my girlfriend an autograph whenever I go to a signing because I like adding to her collection that she has going. We then headed out to where Earl Bennett was going to be in Naperville. I told my dad, "Hey, I think Steve McMichael is signing over in Woodridge, we can stop by." We stopped at the Sam's Club in Woodridge and I had nothing for him to sign, so we just went in to say hello. We walked over to where McMichael was and there was not one person there in the line for an autograph. I thought that was really crazy that no one was even there for him. He ended up signing this piece of paper for me and I shook his hand and left. We walked around Sam's Club and they had so many free samples to give away, it was amazing. My dad and I both tasted this chocolate vodka liquer which was pretty intense and then we also got some brownies there as well. We left Sam's Club and headed off to Naperville. We finally arrived a little after noon at Dick's Sporting Goods and there were a considerable amount of people there for the grand opening of Dick's. We waited there for about twenty minutes, and we went up and met Earl Bennett. He was a really cool guy and was asking us about the other autographs on the ball that we had and where we met his teammates at. After getting an autograph and a picture we left and headed back towards home. I actually had to go and cut grass after this at my aunt's and grandparents house. And then after that I went to bowling for my league in which we won all three games that we played and are now in second place. This was an action packed day for me and I cannot wait to go to more signings. I can see my 50th autograph signing coming up!