All in a day's work!

Whew! What a long day! My boss, Jeremy, and I did a speedy site-visit to Charlotte to 1) check out a venue for another event we've been tasked with at Annual Meeting and 2) let me see the convention center and the ballroom where my events will be taking place.

Ok, get ready to laugh... it involved me, Sarah Young, waking up at 3:15 am, yes, 3:15. Clay laughed SO hard when he heard I had to get up that early and said he'd kill for a picture to document the moment. I took pics at 3:15, but my eyes were so puffy they looked awful, so y'all have to settle for the, almost completely ready time. So, don't say I can't wake up that early!!! I've got proof! This one's from the bberry, so forgive the quality.

The new venue we were scouting is the Back Court in Time Warner Cable Arena. It's really sports-bar-ry, which will make for a pretty cool reception. Jeremy and I will both just be glad when it's planned!

Charlotte was a cooler city than I remembered. I liked it a lot! However, it has this "Light Rail" thing that Jeremy and I spent the day making fun of. It goes all of 11 stops, and I swear it covers only about 2 miles. It makes the WMATA look like Godzilla compared to Jane. It's ridiculous, but you've got to commend Charlotte for trying. Check it out...

So we left at 5:45 am, and I arrived home at 6:40 pm, which is significantly earlier than what we were scheduled to (9:04 pm). We spent a whopping 1.25 hours in meetings. Yeah, crazy huh?

Highlights of the day:

• The longest line at security I've ever seen in an airport, ridiculous.
• I was butterfingers, and dropped at least 6 different things, fortunately nothing broke.
• I sported a hard hat, eyewear, and a bright orange mesh vest for our "hard hat tour" of the ballroom. It was picture worthy, but I was behind the camera in the professional sense today. I wanted the catering managers hard hat... it was bedazzled. AWESOME!

But folks, after this day, I'm ready to sleep.