Awsome, Awsome, Awsome.
I think that about covers it.
Troy

This was my first meeting/event with SWFMAS and I thought it was great! Being a newbie in this, I thought the speakers topics were applicable. Esp. Sprungers. I've read some of his contributions in books and they are very informative and interesting. I look forward to attending future events and would like to thank everyone for their hard work that put this together. = )

I thought the event went very well. All the volunteers did a great job putting everything together.

Speakers were very friendly and had interesting slideshows. Sadly i didn't get to listen to both of them because i was selling raffle tickets, and moving items into the auction room.
The location was pretty good i thought. It was extremely nice of them to let us stay that late in the auction room.

Thanks to all the sponsors and fish stores that donated, and came out to support us.

I am definitely looking forward to next year's event! =]

I thought it went very good as well...was long..but i don't complain when i look at coral all day.
I'm already planning my first fragging experience for the next swap.
Thanks to all the board members and volunteers!

More "Thank You"s for helping out go to:
Randy & Diane Blemke
Chris - djchristyle1
Raul - rochilles
Sandy - (Cristinas mom) - Mailladyfmb

A HUGE Thank You goes out to Bishop Verot High School & Kurt Prey for providing the location for this great event and allowing us to go over our reserved time, staying till 9.20PM & doing as much work as he did with arranging, and running around for us.

Again, this event wouldn't have been possible without all of you guys coming out & supporting the local club, and allowing us to provide further educational events for the young, and the young at heart.

Other than the few hiccups that mostly only volunteers knew about I feel the event went better than expected. We had an awesome turn out, and over 200 pieces of coral went to new homes last night.

Thank you everyone for having patience with me at auction checkout.

Unfortunately I was unable to listen to the speakers as I was busy with coral check-in and organization for the auction. What I was able to listen to I did find to be very informative.

I want to thank everyone for coming and hope you all had as good as of time as I had. I look forward to remeeting you all at future club events and meetings.

Thank you especially to Steve, Lisa, Simone & Sandy for all your help with the auction. I could not have done it without you.

See you all April 20 at Mote.

As a new member, I just would like to comment that I thought you all did a great job. The work done to set up the show, obtaining good speakers, getting support of manufacturers and local fish stores certainly paid off and resulted in a great turn out. I think if there were any glitches at the meet, few noticed.

The only negative I have is it would have been nice to learn more about the club, the board and any others that are working to make the club work, and what your plans are for the future, including future events. Perhaps a post on here can get that information out.

I really did enjoy it though, and my tank benefitted greatly from some great items obtained in the auction. Thank you to all involved.

Bill

Yes I thought all went good and the next time we do this i think many more people will take it much more serious due to the turn out we had this time.
(Stores and people)

I wish i did not have to go to work so i could have picked up more coral and fish!!! (I had to leave around 7:00 dam it!!) I also thought the auction had some great peices and I Hope everyone enjoyed the great prices and opertunity to upgrade your tank.

Thanks to anyone that made this happen!! Now to get ready for future events!
(After we recover that is LOL)

Awesome!!! It was great. Thanks for putting on a great event.

The lack of club introduction was my fault. I was bagging corals all morning and did not get there until noon. I had a 15 minute introduction prepared for the club, speakers and event sponsors. However, when I got there I was informed of the scheduling conflict with the school (we had to be out of the cafeteria room by 5 ish). I immediately went to the speaker to see about moving them up in time and not having a question and answer session to save time. After that was worked out, I was told we had another room that might be available. Went to look at that and started moving classroom furniture to accomodate the club.
Next thing I knew, it was about 10 til 1 p.m. and time to get started.

We thought it was fun and interesting. All the things missed will come out in the long run. If it happens again I'm going ahead with a lawsuit. (just kidding) I thought they were minor issues. For us it was worth the trip! And we look forward to many more. At any rate my hat is off to all involved in the event. See Ya at Mote! Pat & Sue