Friends-
We (and by we I mean those of us who work in the trade show and marketing department of my company- which means me basically) have decided to flirt with the idea of doing weblogs for our larger trade shows. While this format (especially not the pink wallpaper) is not how we plan to do it, this is basically a test run to see what we need to do to make it work. One of the first things I have learned is that I have to post everything backwards apparently, to make it come up in order. So forgive me for the non-sequential order of the pictures. I promise tomorrow I will do a better job of it. But right now it is midnight in Vegas, and 3 am in the East. And my body is in a time zone all its own right now. So I'll fix the mistakes later.

I am at the SHOT Show, which for you gun novices out there, is the Shooting Hunting Outdoor Trade Show. Beretta is the biggest exhibitor at this show. Our "Mama" booth is 110x70 feet. Our Law Enforcement booth, which is where I reside, is a mere 10x20 feet. We are one of the most popular booths to visit in the show. These are pictures from day one- set up. Tomorrow, I will get day two and day three posted. Hope you enjoy them. Let me know what you think!


Thursday- Set up day-
We started the day off at 8 am in the Mama Booth. We (the LE guys and I) stayed for a brief overview and then headed off for our booth way on the other side of the convention center. After spending 3 hours in our booth (see below for pictures of our booth) we went back to the mama booth to help out and get lunch.

At 4 pm we had an impromptu team meeting in our booth (after spending most of the afternoon in the mama booth). We were just standing there talking when suddenly the shotgun wall and center panel fell down on us! Not good!! Thankfully, most of the fall was stopped by Len’s head and Blake’s shoulder. (Which really wasn’t good either.) I don’t have a picture of the toppled over booth. I was a little too preoccupied with trying to hold it up. All the shotguns fell off, and one got nicked up pretty good. But we got the wall back up and got the installation company back over pronto. Just when we thought it was all okay and started to leave, it fell over again. It missed me by just a few inches, and instead landed on Len, who was trying to get me out of the way. Good thing he has a hard head! We left the whole thing in the hands of the install company and left. We were exhausted. I checked in an hour ago and was told that everything is okay now. I am just glad it happened today during set up while we were there, and not overnight, or worse yet, tomorrow with customers in the booth.