My first business trip!

I went on my first business trip, the first week of November, to New York. Another trip to New York within two months!! How could I be so lucky?!? The business trip was for a tradeshow/convention and it was only for a few days. I went with my co-worker Kristin and it was very fun.

The night we arrived, we took a tour of the M&M Store.


We spent two days walking around the three floors of the convention talking to different vendors. I was still trying to understand what my company did (since I had only been with my job for 3 months) so it was very intimidating. I learned a lot, but let my co-worker do all the talking. Aren’t I nice? We got all kinds of free crap and I ended up leaving half of it in my hotel room- it wouldn’t fit in my suitcase.

We could not resist taking our picture with this guy because of his shirt. He was hilarious!

There was a booth, at the convention, that had a machine called the "cashinator". You step into this machine and there is money everywhere. They turn on the fan and it blows the money all around. Whatever you catch, you get to keep. I think I ended up with $18 (most of it was $2 bills) My co-worker was so entertained...she even got a video of it. It was funny- but a little embarrassing.

One of the really cool things of my trip was having dinner with my cousin Aaron. He was in New York on business as well, so we met up for dinner. He took my co-worker and me out to dinner. I can’t remember the name of the place, but the food was enormous!!!! It turns out my cousin is in the same sort of market my company is in. I had no idea. Now I have someone who understands what I do (well, I don’t understand too much, so it isn’t that hard to know more than me)

My Sandwich- Insanely big!!

I try to live by the following...if you go to New York, you have to see a Broadway play!! We stayed an extra night just so we could catch a play. We went and saw the Little Mermaid. The whole show was done on roller skates to give that “swimming” feeling. The vocals were amazing and it was so enjoyable. I also took my co-worker to Serendipity. She loved it as much as I did my first time. We both had the frozen hot chocolate and it was so yummy!

Mmmmmm....