As usual Doug is always looking for that one cloud on a clear day. This years symposium was just as good as previous years. Yes, there are the occasional glitches especially in registration when 40-50 people show up all at once and want to get registered. Everything is fairly well organized there. As for the food, I will be the first one to say it isn't a four star hotel. The food was OK, not great but, eh you are trying to feed hundreds of people and they do have to know ahead of time so there will be enough. This year the restaurant tried something different instead of the old take a try and filler up, they sat everyone at tables and they were served. At first I thought this was rather dumb, as the weekend went on I began to like it. I found I was able to meet a lot more people than I usually did because you are often sitting with half a dozen strangers and you begin to talk. Yes there is a lot of childishness going on with the boat manufacturers, it is unfortunate that they don't participate. Quite frankly in all the years I have been there I can't remember every seeing Mariner Kayaks represented. It is too bad. As for the signage and the buildings, it was alright one just had to remember that the event only had a couple anyway so unless you are a complete dummy one couldn't get lost. The Friday and Saturday night slide shows had a lot to be desired, I fell asleep during Tom Roshon's talk. So all in all the event was good and I do not have anything to do with TAPS, the organization that sponsors the event. So Doug, stop pissing on a sunny day!!! Kirby *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 21 1999 - 07:41:46 PDT
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