The first photo I took with my handy-dandy new digicam
Our hotel in Houston
Isaak the CEO and GT the COO over breakfast, discussing Very Serious Matters
My chocolat chaud
Terry, our TX representative and magic-maker, being a good sport
GT eating tomatoes on toast and demanding to know why that's so strange
Isaak austerely examines the morning paper while I hover over his shoulder
Houston. A pretty lady, yeah?
The lot of us, working the booth. Click, learn, drive, guys
That charming SWAG that's so well-loved - air fresheners, keychains and wristbands, oh my
Terry making a bunny of GT, me with a hog that I found quite horrifying
Our table at the Grotto, dinnertime; IT and Terry laugh and ponder over driver education policy (what else?)
Terry making an odd face before a most bizarre restaurant mural
GT finally gets sick of my shenanigans, takes the camera from me, and turns the tables. I was withdrawn and sullen after this
A large bus and more conference fun. At some point they fed us pretzels and chips
The moon from a convertible, and a sign for duck crossing!
The beach at Galveston, where Terry and I made a twilight visit
A straw flower that a transient at the gas staton made, 2:00 AM: "You go into these here small towns and you always find a native messin' with some grass," he said
Things I couldn't photograph but that are important anyway:
- The size of those genuine ten-gallon hats
- The fact that people really say howdy
- The stripper pole exhibit that went up - literally - right beside the evangelical vendor
- The mecca to football that materialized right in the middle of the conference hall: suddenly everybody's in a rocking chair, facing flat screens
- The morning shuttle rides among superintendents who waxed poetic about both education and calfskin
-Contributed by Angela Natividad - the Clever Cat behind Marketing
