Opening day at Gem Mall

The Gem Mall and Holidome open today at 10am - it will no doubt be totally insane.

We spent 2 days setting up our booth at Gem mall and finished by 6pm then went shopping. Spent all our money and our sons inheritance, but had fun doing it.

The first day of set up was overcast and cool, good set up weather. We had hired 2 young guys to help unload and set up. One was good, a hard worker. The other was useless. We fired him and had the second guy come back for day two. We will use him to break down on the last day. The second day it rained hard all day and some of the booths got flooded out. It was a mess.

One observation - the same small toilets we have always had at Gem Mall are all we will have for Gem Mall and Holidome. I see a major problem happening. Four huge tents with 3,000 vendors and hundreds of thousands of customers with only a handful of stalls. Bring your pee bottles people.

Anyway, thats all I have. We were too busy to take pics for the blog and opening morning will be insane.