Texas Nursery and Landscape Expo

Well, we arrived in Houston yesterday, Friday afternoon around 1:00 pm. After grabbing some lunch at a nearby Jack in the Box, we proceeded to the Nursery Expo at the George Brown Convention Center which is right across from Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros. Amazingly enough it was real easy to find and while traffic was heavy, it really wasn't that bad. Registering for the event was real tedious. In the past I would fill out one registration form and list everyone on the one form. This year I had to fill out a complete form for each one of us. Myself, Jody, and four of my five children. (Molly is still in England). Then I had to wait as the woman processing the data entered in all the info from each form with a hunt and peck typing technique. Note to self: next year pre-register online. We finally got registered, got our badges and entered the ginormous event room. This place was huge and the sheer number of vendors and interesting displays was quite impressive. I have a feeling I'm going to exceed my self imposed catalogue limit! My youngest son Jesse, age 2, was a big hit with all the vendors. He had a great time being generally cute and a huge ham. He even got into a game with one of the vendors where they played ball using a lime. It was hilarious. It's Saturday morning now and we are getting ready to head over to the Expo for day 2. We'll finish up this evening and head back to Elgin tonight. Well that's all for now, I've got to wake everyone up and rally the troops for another day of trudging through Plantland.