Trinidad fun

There are few things more fun, exciting or challenging than building a theme park. Building a park that is half a world away from home makes it doubly so. 

I left home yesterday morning and arrived in Trinidad via Toronto at five this morning. We drove straight to the site and jumped in with both feet. There was plenty going on and everyone it seemed had questions that desperately needed answers.

One crew was working on the final levels of the kid's play park. I assisted them as they pulled the ship out of the mud hole it had been resting in and set the final grades before lifting the ship gingerly back in place. While they did the final tamping of the gravel in that area I jumped over to the first hole of the adventure golf and set the final grades there for the crew. Another team was busy installing the Pieces of Eight spinning coaster. Normally a relatively easy ride to install, it was complicated by the fact we had elevated the track twelve feet high on concrete piers with the Crow's Nest ride and some large rock work in the middle of the loops. It is going to be a very exciting ride. Two rock crews were busy with their work and scores of other workers were busy with all manners of tasks. 

Tomorrow morning we head back to the worksite bright and early. I'll be taking lots more pictures of the progress. Stay tuned...

Why can't signs be fun?

We take a little different approach than most sign shops when it comes to 'mundane' signs. These are the signs needed to inform and regulate things like parking and street signs and such. We don't understand why they most often are boring or mere afterthoughts to a project. We instead love to plan this kind of detail in from the start and believe they should be fun! They would certainly get a lot more attention if they were like this.

The first example is a street sign for a tourist development that I worked on about seven years ago. The second is a current project - not yet formally announced. 

With modern computerized tools, up to date methods and materials and a healthy dose of imagination anything is possible. And we are intent on making every one of our projects this interesting and fun!.

Dayna's special tree

This week we began work on a very special project. We were asked to come up with a sign for a memorial park for a four year old girl, Dayna Brooke. The family wanted something kid friendly and upbeat, a happy reminder of the child they love and miss dearly. We proposed a tree with the sign hanging in the bend of the trunk. Dayna loved ladybugs and so there will be four ladybugs on the tree for visitors to find. There will also be a tiny fairy door tucked between the roots. The design came from our hearts and the build of the feature will get the same loving attention.