Trade Show Behind the Scenes

While I've worked show booths before, I've never been there on set-up day like yesterday. It's dangerous! There were fork lifts moving around everywhere, folks up on ladders installing big booth furnishings - any number of things could go wrong. Here is the view late last night while there was still work to do.

This morning the floor opened at 8:30 and I did the whole day in the booth or meeting our vendors. Of course, I have dutifully taken pictures of the variety of stuff on display. It's hard for me to believe that the government buys all of this stuff! (Note:, the chopper was at a furniture sales booth, it was not for sale.)

Finally, our humble little booth. #1343, right there between the National Safety Council and the custom imprinters!

There was a booth accident today, one set of displays came down with a boom! Nobody was hurt, but there were office supplies all over the place. The humanity!