This past week I traveled to Orlando, FL for the True Value Show that Vermeer had a booth at. Everyone said "oh I bet the weather was wonderful"....well, I didn't get the chance to go out and enjoy it at all (obviously, working) but it was nice to walk around without jackets on to/from the convention center! Below are a few pics of the outside of the convention center.
I love palm trees.
This is a portion of DeWalt's booth at the show... I took this pic for Karl :)
I made friends with the "Genie" skylift guys and asked if I could ride one of their lifts up in the air to take pictures....they were very nice and let me! It's hard to try to explain how big these shows are and how much stuff they have but it literally is unreal. At this show, only True Value members were allowed to be there. So, anyone who is a vendor for them could have a booth of products to display. There was everything from rental equipment to nuts/bolts, rubbermaid, carhartt, swiffer, bounce houses, popcorn machies and the list goes on.
The crazy part is that this much stuff can fit in the building and it's just one hall of the enormous convention center.
Our booth from above. This time it was a much smaller booth. I got home Wednesday night and won't have to travel again until this time next year!
This weekend we traveled with friends to Kansas City for a weekend away. We went to lots of little shops & a mall. We also went to Texas Roadhouse for my birthday supper and went to the spa on saturday. Well, let me rephrase that. The GIRLS did all of that... the boys went to Bass Pro & Cabelas. Below is one of the little shops we went to. Emily's sister had told her about this store and there happened to be one 2 miles from our hotel. It was an awesome accessorie store. They had everything arranged by color. There was all sorts of jewerly, scarves, hats, handbags, shoes and much more-- it was like a girls dream :)
We went window shopping at "The Plaza" while waiting on our dinner reservations. It was very fun to see!
The boys had fun go-carting one night. It was a place where their carts could go up to 40mph. I didn't get very good pictures because it was dark and they were going very fast.
Ahhh... the spa! The boys dropped us off and went to Bass Pro and we endulged ourselves :) We had plans to go last summer when the boys were on their Montana hunting trip but when that got cut short we never ended up going. We told ourselves it was a long time coming. :) Very relaxing!
And yet, another very exciting thing that happened this weekend..... Rachel & Rowan came over for a visit today. After Rowans nap he came out with a new shirt on. Since it had a tractor I immediately was drawn to it and started reading it.....
Yay!!! Another niece or nephew!! Baby Van Maanen is due next September. Can't wait! :)
Hope you all had a great week-- I'm happy to be home.
