Arlington Believe

This was our second year in Arlington at the Arlington Convention Center, which is about a thousand times better than our previous location in downtown Dallas. The convention center is right off the highway right across from Six Flags (no, we didn't get to go). Here are some highlights from the weekend.

• We didn't get to go a baseball game, but we do have to drive right past The Ballpark at Arlington every time we went to and from the hotel. Scott Rubin made the joke that a requirement for a Believe venue is it has to be within walking distance of a major league baseball stadium. I only wish that was true.
• There was a Quik Trip located within a mile of the Convention Center. I went 5 times. Doesn't get better than that.
• One of the other rooms in the Convention Center had some guys dressed up as the Founding Fathers of our country. I was barely able to get the picture (see below).
  
• Jeremy Weldon (the Foundation Red drummer) and I began an ongoing game of knock-out with the basketball and basketball goal that travels with Believe. After Arlington, I was winning 2-1.
• Some of the students had to recruit Brent the Stunt Guy to scale a wall to get down their hackey sacks they had thrown up in a window sill.
  
• 3 of the band members, Michael, Jeremy and Chris, took the lead in tear down and truck pack this week. It still had a long way to go, but it was awesome seeing those guys take ownership in that area.
• Saturday night Auburn lost to Vanderbilt and then the Cubs were eliminated from the playoffs. I almost gave up sports.
  
• We had two flat tires on the trip. One on the trailer. One on the van. One on the way to Texas. One on the way home.