Joel`s thoughts & Thanks

I would like to continue on Craig's theme here. To be honest there were so many members that stepped up at the event that there is no way to remember all of you. And to be honest I am terrible with remembering names especially those who I just met at the show. So I also apologize to the people that spent a ton of time that I don't mention specifically.
Of course first and foremost Craig and JB for a year and a half of fricking mind blowing amounts of work. We pulled it off guys!!!! I talked to you two more over this time frame than I did my wife I think ..... hmm I better fix that I guess. Thanks it really was a great experience but don't think I ever want to do it again! Who knows though in  4 or 5 years .........
Joe - what more can I say that I haven't already? You and I worked together on designing the
software that ran the show and you coded a great web based application
that was a huge reason the show went so smooth. Registration was almost
like silk. Thanks!
Jeanette - you spent three months organizing all of the signage for the event. There is no way I could have imagined this would be a daily need for three months. Wow! What an amazing amount of work that took. Thank you.

Everyone that worked registration - Thanks, I was able to enjoy the trade show floor because of your help. I owe you big for making this happen. I
left the running of this in your hands and you NAILED it, thank you. Deb, Steph, Kylie, Bill, Dan, Bob, AJ, Jeanette, Diane and many others I just plain cannot remember the names of right now. I apologize my brain is mush.
Steph - WOW! Thank you so much for handling all that you did. You stepped up in areas that I was theoretically in charge of, this gave me a ton of time to enjoy the show and spend a bunch of time with vendors and speakers to cover their needs. Thank you thank you thank you!
Deb - This is the  first chance I had to meet you. You helped SOOO much. Creating great speakers gifts, filling up totes and driving them many hours to Des Moines. Two truck loads even! Your constant help in registration also allowed me to see the interior of the show.
Kylie - Thank you for handling ordering the totes and raffle tickets. Also spending a huge amount of time working registration and being a door bouncer! You rock girl!
Nik - You took the shuttling duties off of my shoulders.  I really enjoyed driving people around especially world renowned aquarists but the fact is I couldn't handle that and still do what needed to be done on-site. Thank you.
Matt/Ninja - I saw you all week and weekend helping in numerous areas especially offering help to any vendor that needed anything.
TONS of people helping vendors load in and out. I didn't carry one thing  (well I helped Dirk load up) and really was never on the floor during load in as we were getting registration, raffle and many others things ready to go. All I know is there was a sea of lime green shirts helping our vendors. Thank you.
Yes there were a few hiccups but very few considering the massive task we took on. Everyone has heard the great comments we all received so I won't repeat them but we should be proud. I am going to go online and maybe look for the ngeative comments to see what maybe was done wrong. Hopefully there are not too many unhappy people out there, but that is usually who yells the loudest.
Thank you everyone!

 

So far all threads on MACNA 2011 on the different forums are all VERY positive. I am sure I am missing some but the fact I can't find them is GREAT!!