these last few days erin & i have been chilling out in orlando. it hasn't been the best experience. we pay quite a bit for the hotel (john calls it luxurious) and they charge for just about everything (i don't even want to get started on room service). however, it's been very cool to kick back with erin for a couple of days, we haven't had "us" time since new years. being that we are quality time peeps, this can be a problem. we've had some nice times relaxing and talking in between her work and my naps.
i got to hang with john this morning for a couple hours. that was a lot of fun and a new little cultural experience for me. had some very pleasant conversation and laughs. i didn't get to see the ill equipped asbury, but i figure i'll save that for another time.
this builder things has also been fun to hang with some friends from church. turns out some of the church folk are builders (which we knew) and were coming down as well (we didn't know). so it was fun to run into them & hang with them through the festivities and carnival that is "the international builders show."
i don't know how many people were here for the event, but i'd say it was somewhere around the hundreds of thousands of people. 
we were told it's the biggest convention in orlando ever. all i know is that erin and i walked the maze of vendors for about two or three hours and we only touched a small portion of the event. i was hoping to take some cool pics and get some ideas for imagining some new prayer station installations. what i got was some cool advertising things, over the top stuff (kohler doing a cirque de soleil thing that apparently had a wardrobe malfunction the day before) and some indulgences of man-ness. i was pleased to see quite a bit of green technology being integrated into building practices, that is a cool thing.
