The CrabFest Craft Show... and reasons why tents are needed...

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Here's the follow-up to the summer craft show thread. Yesterday, I did a craft show that was tied into an Annual CrabFest. Earlier in the week I wondered if I could get by with just a few well-place umbrellas of if I needed to go with a tent. Almost every response suggested using a tent. The weather forcast from early in the week was sunny, hot and humid. The day before the show, it changed to scattered thunder storms (which made sense since it had been in the 90s and humid all week) Of course it looked like rain when I was ready to leave for the show. By the time I arrived, received my spot and began set-up, I felt a few drops of rain. My hubby and I quickly put the tent up and began setting up....and it began to pour! The sellers that are also on Etsy.com, all had tents and we were ready to go at 10:00am when the show started. Most of the other sellers were sitting in their cars until about 9:30ish, waiting for the rain to subside. Vendors were still showing up as late as 11:00 am, but we were all making sales while they were still setting up. So the tent certainly was the way to go!Overall it was a pretty good show, I was busy all day and as the CrabFest began, I had a constant stream of people walking into my tent throughout the show. After the storm, it cleared up a bit and the humidity immediately came back. With the sun back out, it was once again very hot. Many people who stopped by my table picked up/asked for a business card and I did get a custom order from one woman. My sales were pretty good, well worth sitting there in the heat all day. It was nice to see a couple of vendors that I hadn't seen in awhile, along with a couple of Etsy sellers I had never met. So the tent was the right way to go, the rain would have kept me sitting in my vehicle until the rain stopped and w/o the tent I would have been in the sun most of the day. Thanks for the advice everyone!