Imagine a gigantic room with more than a thousand exhibitors and twenty-eight thousand people in attendance. Inside the giant room massive rides are running, climbing apparatus is set up and enormous creative displays are wall to wall. The noise is a cacophony of competing sounds. The isles are jammed with people from around the world. It is an experience unlike anything else and is truly sensory overload. I have now quickly covered the trade show floor once, only stopping briefly at points of interest as I gathered an quick overview of everything there. My iPhone tells me I walked in excess of eleven miles today. Tomorrow, I'll do it all again and spend a little more time at specific booths and displays. It is all about gathering information and building relationships for the future.
Ready to blast off
I managed a little time on the Sign Challenge piece yesterday, finishing one leg and the engine on the rocket. Now it is time to blast off as I sit at the gate ready to board my plane to planet Orlando. I'll be in transit until early tomorrow morning and then hit the ground running first thing at the world's largest trade conference for theme parks. I look forward to visiting with many old friends and meeting many new ones at the show.
Time to head south!
While Canada is well known as the great white north, the truth is we don't see much snow locally, most years it is not even worth plowing the driveway. If it does snow a few inches, it quickly turns to rain and the next day the white stuff will only be memory. Our kids, now grown, have never seen a white Christmas. We live on the west coast, only sixty feet above sea level and about fifty-five miles from the ocean. That effects our climate in a large way. But the mountains which surround us are a different story, with the closest less than half a mile distant. Vedder Mountain rises up steeply, a little more than three thousand feet in elevation. This morning the top of the mountain was capped with snow. Our lawn remains green (as it should be). Just the same I'm kinda glad I hop a plane early tomorrow bound for balmy Florida. Although the business trip to IAAPA, a theme park convention is a very quick one it will give me a chance to thaw out a little. :)
