… bright and glorious, we were.
Wednesday – To the moon and back
I pulled into the TeddyCon hotel at 1pm to see LittlePhilly and MommyKuri standing there – waiting for me. We extended the first of many hugs that weekend to each other and then went into the conference space to get some sort of an idea of the most organized way to set the room up.
Organization was a big part of what made TeddyCon 2015 zing. And those two had certainly thought everything out – down to the finite details. I remember the room looked so spacious and empty before we began and I marveled, remembering back to TeddyCon 2014 and how we packed that room in quite nicely.
Heading to the storage units, we began packing in load after load – toting it back to the hotel and beginning to bring the con space back to life. Part way into the process, The Allentown Boys were called in – some local gents who were chomping at the bit to get the weekend going. And as we put the room together, setting up the walls, the poles, the curtains, dumping the balls into the ball pit and setting up that amazing crib, I paused for a moment – watching everybody at work. And I could feel the buzz already … that first strain on TeddyCon-itis already having taken over all of us. Everybody wanted to get the room ready – so the convention could begin.
One of the fun little things we did were the secret projects, so to speak. My favorite of which was that when put all the foam tiles down, we spelled out words. And when those mats were loaded with Legos or matchboxes or whatever went on them, the words weren’t obvious. But if anyone cleared them off, secret messages were written there.
I could tell you what the messages said. But if I did that, they wouldn’t be a secret anymore, would they? 😉
And for a play room that was already mind-blowing from the 2014 concept, it seemed impossible to improve upon it. But, as was the realized theme all weekend long, anything was possible … if you put the work into it. So little by little (no pun intended), the improvements emerged – from a sweet scent that filled the air to those adorable Winnie the Pooh wall stickers, we began to give new details to it all. As I looked around the play room, I felt the need to give it some sort of name – something that would be befitting of its purpose and of its effect on the multitudes of littles it would hold that weekend. I just didn’t know what the name would be … at least not on that first night, anyways.
And, finishing in the wee hours of the morning, those of us who were still there did the one and only thing that made sense. We went to Waffle House. Phil must not have eaten at all that day as he devoured an impressive amount of food, complete with an apple crumb waffle. LOL
Back at the hotel, I took my daily late-night stroll – to smoke and to reflect on the day that had been. TeddyCon 2014 was an 
unbelievable adventure, like a trip to the moon. But I could tell already that TeddyCon 2015 was going to be to the moon and back. That was, in fact, what one of the wall stickers in the play room read exactly.
Off to bed. TeddyCon 2015 would open the next day.
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