After registering, we headed for the Keystone Bar & Grill to meet up with what turned out to be a gathering of about 40 conference attendees.
A jocular time was had by all and the evening set the mood for what was the best WIA I've ever attended.
One reason the event was so enjoyable was due to the fact that for every year you attend, you add more friends to your circle of woodworking buddies. Many of these guys who've been friends for years on facebook and twitter were meeting for the first time face-to-face.
And they were like a boisterous batch of puppies (I mean that as a term of endearment)—playing hard together until they dropped from exhaustion.I wasn't able to keep up with the big dogs over the weekend and was in bed most nights by 9:30. But a bunch of these woodworkers went out each night until about 2:00 a.m., crashed hard in the hotel, and were seated in the front row of a seminar by 9:00 the next morning.
I don't know how they did it.
Moreover—without exception—every single one of these guys had brought only one piece of luggage with him to the conference.
And I don't know how they did that either.
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Be sure to check out the other bloggers' websites throughout the week for their take on the conference:
Vic Hubbard's Photo Album
Uppercut Woodworks
Tom's Workbench
Matt's Basement Workshop
The Bois Shop
Peter Follansbee
Logan Cabinet Shoppe
Giant Cypress
Penultimate Woodshop
Taylor Garage
Renaissance Woodworker
The Garage Shop
Digital Woodworker
I'm sure I've missed a few, so let me know if I have and I'll add it to the list.
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