Emma and I were up in Deer Park this morning for the 10:00 am opening of the Apple Store.
We got there at about 9:35, and there were about 150 people in line already. By the time the doors opened, there were probably about 350 people queued up. (Emma took this photo.)
The store is a standard, smaller-format store– about the size of the Old Orchard Apple Store.
The two notable things about this morning’s event were the free t-shirts and the fact that I got to mess with an iPod Touch. The Touch is pretty cool (it’s an iPhone without the phone) but it was a little slow to respond. And I couldn’t get on the iTunes Store from the phone at all, probably because every WiFi device in the house was jamming the store’s network.
On the way home, another interesting thing happened: we were heading south on Rand Road and passed underneath Route 53 when I saw this:

That’s Sears Tower in the center of the photo, some 40 miles away. This sort of thing only happens on the clearest of clear days.
From there, it was off to Trader Joe’s and then back home.