- Toured both the facility and area. Cedar Hills (just on the boarder of Dallas) is becoming a booming suburb. The outdoor mall areas that will be complete by then are absolutely gorgeous.
- Met with the facility and administration of Trinity and checked on a gazillion details
- Met with the audio/video/lightening guy, Jeff, to figure out exactly what equipment we have to work with
- Ate lunch with their student ministries and MC staff. Great people.
- Double checked the seat count in the auditorium
- Checked the site line from every corner of the auditorium
- Counted every possible parking space
- Took the dimensions of the stage
- Measured the gym and counted the outlets for the vendors
- Got the maps and dimensions of every room available in the main sactuary, childrens building, school and student center - besides the general session, we have six super sessions and 45 breakout session, so we need every room and every chair
- Met with countless sals reps for hotels and set up hotel contracts with a number of them
- Met with some local restaurants
- Stopped at the visitor's info center to establish connection and get free stuff
- Shot footage and pictures of the church and Dallas for promo video
- Established connections with two of the primary audio/media/lighting rental companies
All that and...
Celebrated Alisha's birthday at some Mexican restaurant downtown that was let's say "interesting"
I had the most horrible headache the first night, comparable only to the one I had in the early 90's after the first day of the CPA exam
Got up at 5 a.m. to take Jeanne to the DFW airport to catch a flight to New Mexico. Dallas has to be one of worst airports in all of America to navigate the first time through. We needed to pick up a rental car after we dropped Jeanne off and it took us a half hour to find the place. We followed the signs and kept ending up in the return area. We asked the AVIS person how to get where we needed to go and her words were "Go straight and ignore the 'Do Not Enter' sign and it will take you to the lower lever." Go figure. The good news is that once in the airport it's relatively simple and the flight took off on time.
We laughed a lot. What a great team.
3 comments:
I never would have thought of all the stuff you need to do for a conference. Thanks for the behind the scenes.
Sounds exciting!
I talked to my best friend's dad last night and he said it was 101 in Dallas yesterday. I hope you are staying cool.
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