IAAM 2009 Part II

So Saturday morning starts off no frills. I attended some valuable sessions in the morning, and then spent a lot of time in the morning preparing for BEEResponsible which was a panel I was on about serving Beer on a campus and the responsibilities involved.
The fun really started after the session when I went to join my Team Foundation brethren on the floor preparing for the trade show opening that night.

Here is the 2009 Team Foundation (well, most of us anyways) getting ready for the grand opening.

After the trade show business wound down, it was time to catch a bus off to the ticketmaster party. I ended up working a little bit late and after waiting for Kevin to get to the BCEC, we were lucky enough to board the last bus to the party which was hosted at the House of Blues. After a 30-40min. bus ride, we arrived right outside of Fenway park and were escorted into the "Foundation" room at the HOB which is their reserve able for private events area.
The interior decorations of these rooms were extraordinary. Ancient rugs, handmade doors, trippy lights, they were missing nothing.
Me and Kevin met up with Zach and Dusty at the party. Marty was there but busy and Wendy... well I didn't see her at least. None of the girls came with us to the party for their own reasons so I was inclined to meet other people. I met a couple of guys at the bar and we chatted about the ridiculous line for beers.
A little later I met Shannon and Cindy two other student volunteers. And yet later on I met Phillip and Corey at some point in time.
The coolest part of the HOB night was when I got one of the waitresses to show me around on a little tour. She told me a bunch of cool facts like:

• The entire floor is covered with Persian rugs that were stitched together on the spot to create one gigantic rug.
• The manager's office has an 1100 year old door that they have yet to put a lock on because no locksmith want's to attempt it.
• All of the statues are over 300 years old
• There are doors mounted to the ceiling to represent a pathway to heaven. (I think she related this to some religion..)
• And many others

The waitress even took me into the concert side of the HOB where they had the sneaker-somethigns playing a show. It was really cool to see the infastructure that they have methodically imporved on time after time, venue after venue to reach this final note in which they have two or three layouts that all HOBs are built to.

The HOB blues night was awesome in its own regards, however all too soon the lights were on and the staff was shooing us out. I hung out for a while talking with Jane and her husband (actualy a rocket scientist) until there were but a few student volunteers and misc folks left.

I ended up getting my number to the waitress who seemed interested in hanging out after her shift, and we went out on the town (well street at least).

We ventured down the street to a bar called Game Time, or Game On!, or something like that and got some beers. We of course being me, Cindy, Corey, Shannon, and Phil. We grabbed a few drinks for a good cause, Phil's birthday before cabbing it back to the hotels. Thus ending another awesome day in Boston.

And heres me in front of Fenway Park: