26,999 plus Me

Screamscape.com:

"IAAPA - (11/21/07) IAAPA reports that this year’s tradeshow in Orlando drew in 27,000 people from 98 different nations, with attendance up a huge 30% over last year’s show in Atlanta. While I know I skipped out the last two years in Atlanta, whenever the subject of how this year’s show was compared to Atlanta came up in conversations, everyone said they were glad to be out of Atlanta and hoped IAAPA would never return there. IAAPA will be back in Orlando once again in November 2008 and move the show to Las Vegas for the first time ever in 2009. "

I went on Friday because a) I'm addicted to theme parks and b) my LDI pass got me in for free! Good thing too, if I hadn't gone they wouldn't have that nice, round 27,000 number to throw around ;-)

I ran into a good friend-- Lenny Larsen who's doing amazing for himself as a show designer with Landmark Entertainment Group. It was great to see the amazing things he's up to and he's always good for some life and career advice.