The big news: we all survived Friday. I say survived because that's the day the school brings classes to the Arts Festival by the bus load. This year it was 2nd graders I think. A conservative estimate is that probably 500 kiddos came through the train room during about a three hour period. It was quite hectic, very crowded, and the children were surprisingly well behaved. We only had three known "five finger earthquakes" and resulting derails. Considering that we do not use ropes to keep the crowds at bay, and the instability of many of the tables, we felt fortunate.
We didn't quite achieve our layout design goal. The room just wasn't large enough. So we added 45-degree modules on two sides of the wye, which turned it into more of a tee shape. The resulting layout was almost the shape of a big ''M". It worked out perfectly for crowd flow.
Our newest member, Jay, spent the entire day with us. He brought his trains and ran for a bit early in the day. We have a probably new member, Ron, as a result of the show. He is a member of a singing group performing at the Arts Festival, so he could not spend much time with us, but he came through two or three times, got to know all of us briefly, and seems like he will probably join us.
I never got my camera out yesterday, so no photos of day one. Today, we will have more families coming to view the layout, so it will be more peaceful and less busy. So I will get some photos taken, and will post them here and on our yahoo group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthWestTrakers/
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