I'm just glad that I'll get more than 5 hours of sleep for the first night this week.
I felt like the turn out was close to expected and from the sounds of it, everyone was buying stuff. Thanks to the whole club for helping man tables, keep things organized, and jump in to help where needed.
I have to give a special thanks to Norman for doing most of the arranging of the location and dealing with all of the various location-related issues at the swap today.
Thanks to Wayne (and Norman) for handling all of the arrangements for getting Sanjay to the swap. I thought he gave a great talk, was definitely fun to talk to and hang out with, and I really hope he enjoyed himself.
Thanks to Brandon for putting together a slide show (we'll have to do better about using something like this for the next swap and/or finding a way to use it for another meeting) and helping with spreading the word about the swap.
Jack, thanks for running the mic today and keeping things timed out and rolling (I'm not a real strict schedule keeper type but it is necessary to keep things moving) and for the help nailing down some of the donations.
Moriah also deserves a shout out for putting up with me over the past couple of weeks and for throwing together some great signage for the swap. She also spent a LOT of time manning the tables by the door (which also prevented me from having to worry about those).
On the note of working tables at the swap, I want to give a special shout out to the Pierson girls for doing such a great job of running the raffle table and getting MTRCers their membership cards. And really the whole club should be thanking them, because they freed you all up to be able to enjoy the swap without having to get folks on those tables.
While I'm at it, I just want to say thanks again to the sponsors. We could not afford to put on an event like this and allow free admission without a lot of support. We had at least 2x as many vendors attend our swap this year. It seems they contributed to the enjoyment of the show for most people and I hope we can have many of them back in the coming years.
Finally, a swap is nothing without a lot of hobbyists buying, selling, and trading. I was pleased to see a lot of new and old faces. I hope that everyone learned something, made some new friends, and found just the corals they wanted.