Setting up the exhibit

Renee, Wess, Angelica and I flew in this morning at 6:20am to Sacramento, met up with Robert, Michelle, Jason and Vivian, ate a quick breakfast and headed to the convention center to set up our booth.

We quickly set up the floor space with foam squares and carpets, got our carts unpacked, waited for the arrival of the new versions of Big Build and Discovery Dig. The new versions looked great - the shelf space at the bottom and one unit vs. 3 separate units was a great improvement. We assembled the Illuminart and got the Build and Dig in place.

It was a lot of fun putting everything up and making our booth really colorful and exciting! Looking around us - we stood out with our cool banners and colorful PALs.

Fellow exhibitors would stop by and ask us how long we've been in business and were surprised when we told them we were a public library.

I've been up since 4am and it's now 10:40pm so I'm beat. The grand opening of the exhibits showed us that there are definitely interested parties who'd like a PAL at their library - some people wanted to buy them! Looking forward to hearing Michelle, Robert, Renee and Bessie's workshop and Michelle's workshop on Healthy RC tomorrow and manning the booth.

Someone from the book cart drill team asked us if they could use our book trucks - but by that time we had already unloaded our carts and had them in our truck. Who plans a book cart drill team without their own carts??? Crazy!

The exhibit doesn't open up til 5pm so we can't wait to see how the conference goers react to the PALs.