Time For A Tea Party

Thanks to the quirkyness that is our company, I ended up going to Boston on about 4 days notice. Originally Steve-o was supposed to go, but he's overseas now. Then Ariel was to go, but he needed the time to prepare for a trip to Asia. So the Wednesday before the trip, I get a "hey Kev, wanna go to Boston?" from Ariel, and next thing I know, my ticket is booked.

Monday I show up at the airport and met Roger (fresh back from vacation and unaware of the personnel change), which was interesting. A direct flight to Boston (thank god), and next thing we're bouncing around in the back of a shuttle bus to get to the car rental office. I swear, the driver was either drunk or practicing for a demolition derby. Picked up the car, and Roger was nice enough to head downtown as I've never been before. We walked around a marketplace downtown for a bit, grabbed lunch (where I found out my company card was maxed), and then headed off to the hotel. The hotel we're staying at is about 30 min north of Boston, on a good day, but we got stuck in traffic, so it took about an hour. Fun times. And it turns out that the hotel is booked only for the 1 night, even though we'll be in town for 2. Even more fun. After that, it was just a quiet night, grabbing dinner in the hotel (we're not really close to anything), and crashing early.

Up at 6:30 to set up for the show, a good breakfast, and off to the floor. Roger booked another hotel downtown for that night, so we were taken care of there. A good show, good turnout for the presentation, and some solid leads, which was awesome. After the show, we talked to the new reseller that we signed for the Northeastern US (an old friend of Roger's), then headed off downtown. Another good meal, a quick walk around, and off to bed.

Wednesday we had to meet with an old client, who convieniently enough, had their office just down the road from the first hotel. Which is now an hour drive away. But the meeting is at 10AM, so we weren't too rushed in the morning, thankfully. We spent just over an hour with them, talked about where they were going and how we could help, and then jetted off to the airport to see if we could change our flight (we weren't supposed to leave until 8pm, but got to the airport around 1pm). A $50 change fee later, and we were on our way home, 5 hours earlier. I can't imagine how boring it would have been if we had to wait around the entire day.