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The Home School Book Fair is a Christian event sponsored by Hearth & Home Ministries. There are 80 workshops and 240 booths selling thousands of home school products. Every effort is made to ensure that products and workshops are compatible with Biblical principles. We encourage you to come both days so that you can take it all in!

CD's

CD's of all the workshops will be sold at the Book Fair by Rhino Technologies.

Check Room

Store your purchases and other belongings free of charge in the Check Room.

Children

The Arlington Convention Center has expanded and children of all ages are welcome to attend. However, we urge parents NOT to bring their small children (7 and under) because the Book Fair is a long and tiring event for them and we do not have childcare facilities. Parents with children at the Book Fair must make sure they are supervised at all times. Families whose children run loose throughout the Center will be asked to take them home. If children are likely to make noise at a workshop that is being audiotaped, we ask their parents to sit in the back of the room with them.

No Strollers - No Carts - No Wagons - No Wheeled Luggage

To reduce congestion in the Exhibit Hall and elsewhere, we ask that no wheeled conveyances be used inside the Arlington Convention Center. Parents may wheel their strollers into the Arlington Convention Center. As soon as they enter, they will be asked to check their strollers in the Check Room and leave them there for the day. When they are ready to leave, they may remove their checked strollers from the Check Room and stroll their little ones out to the parking lot. The same holds true for other wheeled vehicles. Exceptions are made for wheelchairs and other such devices for the disabled.

Nursing Babies

Parents usually carry their nursing babies in front packs while at the Book Fair. There is a Nursing Mothers Room (M-3) where mothers may take their babies to nurse or nap. There is also a lounge with a couch in the women's bathroom in the Grand Hall where mothers may nurse. We ask that mothers use discretion about when and where they nurse.

Wheel Chairs

Wheel chairs are permitted. Manual wheel chairs are available at the Arlington Convention Center at no charge.

Rest Areas

City of Arlington fire regulations do not allow anyone to sit on the floor anywhere in the Arlington Convention Center, and they severely restrict the number of chairs and benches that can be set up in the passageways. Therefore if families are looking for places to sit down and rest, we recommend the following areas: (1) the back of the Exhibit Hall where chairs line the wall or (2) the Lunch Room (Salon C).

Curbside Pickup

If you purchase a lot of heavy books and don't wish to carry them to your car, you may leave them at the Check Room. At the end of the day you may pull your car up to the entrance nearest the Check Room and have your books brought to your car.

Food

There is a beautiful lunch room at the Arlington Convention Center selling delicious lunches. Snacks are sold at the concession stands. We suggest that home schoolers NOT bring sack lunches from home. The Center does not permit sack lunches or any other food brought in from the outside to be consumed inside the building, and they do not have adequate picnicking facilities outside the building. Exceptions for bona fide medical reasons will be made.

Parking

$5.00 per day per car
$8.00 per day per motor home - no overnights - no hook-ups
in-and-out privileges -- pay when you arrive
entrances to the Arlington Convention Center parking lot are off Copeland Road and Ballpark Way on the south side of the Convention Center.
beware of higher parking fees at the Sheraton Arlington Hotel next door. They have been known to charge $20 or $30 per day for non-guest parking.

Exhibit Hall Phone Number

In service on May 11 and 12, 2012 only: 1-817-459-5034

Six Flags Home School Day

Thursday, May 3, 2012

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