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Uncategorized Boards => Events. Balloon, Magic, Etc => Topic started by: Graham Lee on November 08, 2018, 05:05:45 PM
Florida Super Jam 2019, 9/12th Jan
We have just booked flights over to Florida for Jan with Crofty.
It's been a few years since we have attended,
more details are on the website if anyone wanted to attend,
https://www.thefloridasuperjam.com/
David and I have just checked in online for our flights out to Florida
in the morning. Guessing the forum will be very quiet while I'm away.
I will post all the pictures when back from the event.
David and I are just back from the Florida Super Jam.
Had a lovely time and will start to post the pictures as soon as we can.
A few of the many pictures I took, it will take a while to post them all.
My ladies of latex had a welcoming committee ready for myself and David.
Pre jam ballooning.
More pre jam balloons.
The hotel.
Bradley made the mouse.
Our day at gator land.
It was a very enjoyable day.
Some of the ladies of latex, Diane, Dianna and Bella.
The history of the boat we were just about to ride on.
We got the front row of the boat. You can just see the first crocodile we saw.
Then it was back to see the crocodile feeding.
A funny zebra/donkey, not seen one before.
More from gator land
Mr cool playing with his cards.
Our uber ride home, pretty cool car.
Then the start of the Florida Super Jam.
The start of the workshops,
the first one from Gergo Csatai who was representing Gemar Balloons.
My princess.
Joe Mock made sponge bob and the turtle.
Joe made the bear and monster.
David crofts the dog.
Workshop number two with Dennis from Betallic.
A present from Bella, a balloon bag light.
This will come in handy at many gigs where we struggle to see the colours.
What a lovely thing to do................thank you xx.
I believe Michael Bey made the gun and Dennis Bauyon the helicopter.
Herschel relaxing for two minutes.
Balloons from around the jam room.
I missed these two off somehow, oops
So a single picture so we get back onto track with three pictures per post.
Can you see my OCD kicked in?
I think it was Carl who made the paw patrol dog.
Tim McConeghy with his first workshop, he was sponsored by Qualatex.
I think these were Tim's designs he showed in his line twisting workshop.
Bumblebee was made by Carl I believe.
The cat was made by Nao.
I up-scaled the whale.
David having a weave.
The group build coming on.
From around the jam room.
The jam room early one morning.
Around the jam room.
More from the jam room.
My view from my room, David's view was the car park, oops.
A few changes being made to the schedule.
I had breakfast with Joseph, a really lovely guy.
It was nice chatting with him.
More from the jam room.
The helicopter is a mash up from the one Dennis showed and my
helicopter from Balloon Tube.
Tee and her workshop designs.
The opening evening show.
More from the show.
The big build coming along. Nao's face design.
Jeff D'Ambrosio workshop.
Michael Bey getting ready for his workshop on picking up restaurant gigs.
Balloons from around the jam room.
Ernie made the glider.
More from the jam room.
More from the jam room.
I made a shoe and Dennis taught a puppet class.
Michael Bey and his marketing class.
I think this was my attempt at Tee's dog design.
Jeff and his flower and bee design.
Balloon from the jam room.
The big build coming together.
Another workshop by Gergo Csatai on build a digger.
More from Florida.
The finished big build, Tee's face technique and Joe making his variation on a theme.
After Tee's workshop.
More from the jam room.
From the jam room.
Nao and his distorted face design.
Justin Perez and his floatable/moving workshop.
Teresa Forst and her fast and easy linework workshop.
This was possibly the busiest workshop of the whole convention.
Then it was onto Nao's workshop on the cat hat.
The finished hats.
Then Jeff did a class on faces and Billy in his lighthouse costume.
More from around the jam room.
Diana looking for her Prince.
The group build nearly finished. You can just spot Debbie who organised it all.
More from the jam room and my attempt at Nao's frog.
Quick access sharpie holders.
In Michael Crayton's workshop oh hair bands.
Group photo from workshop.
And in the line up for the large Florida Super jam group photo
More from the jam room.
The balloon ball was very heavy.
My attempt at the panda, they ran out of white.
Panda's last breath?
Dennis and his version of the distorted face.
Tee and her penguin design.
Balloons from around the jam room.
David doing a little spot in the magic workshop that was run by Bruce.
More from the jam room.
Getting ready for the parade.
The parade.
Parade Pictures.
More from the parade.
More from the parade.
More from the parade.
Still the parade pictures.
Still the parade.
More from the parade.
Last from the parade.
Jam room and parade.
David at the back of the Ice queue, he even missed the parade as he was talking.
Shock, horror.
The young lad with crocodile I believe was 14 and so enthusiastic.
It was lovely to see the next generation of balloon artistes emerging.
More from the jam room.
From around the venue.
Dennis and his big bear head class.
A close up look at the designs by Dennis.
The end of the workshop by Dennis.
Then the rabbit's are from Tee's workshop.
More from the jam room.
Teresa Forst explaining some table décor.
David made the beetle.
More from the jam room.
Joette with her organic piece and I think talking about the environment and pricing.
Loading up the truck to take to the balloons to the local children's unit.
It was a big old truck.
Truck all loaded.
Holly's workshop.
Shonna I believe made the skunk.
Debbie and her dress class.
David telling the story of the baby Dino inside the balloon.
Just David, he he
More from the event.
I won the dress in the raffle, David modelling it for me.
We then went out for the day to coco beach with Bella, Claire and Diane.
Thanks for the lift and company to all, it was a very fun day.
They do like to park well away from the kerb but then
have plenty of road space to do so, unlike the UK.
Forgot the drink we had but it was very very strong and the one got me tipsy.
David mentioned cocoa beach is spelt with an a at the end.............oops.
It was then onto Disney for the day.
Denzil was kind enough to take us and spend the day there with us.
Actually at Disney, they still had the Christmas tree up.
David relaxing.
The start of the parade.
The Disney Parade.
Still the parade.
This is the sight David and I saw a lot of at the day.
The back of Denzil as he zoomed us around the rides.
He was a great tour guide and made the day most enjoyable.
A rare picture of me.
David looking very distinguished on one of the rides.
The last picture, queueing for a coffee, it took over 30 mins,
possibly a reason not to go back to Disney?
Late night firework display.
We stopped at a service station on the way home. Look at the varieties
of coffee that are available from all the machines.
And then the selections of ice cream and frozen yogurt....................
We went to a shopping centre on the last morning and this was our uber ride,
funny number plate, he he
David decided to try a face mask cream, I think it was only $300 on special offer.
We did have a good laugh.
A selection of pictures from the shopping centre.
The Crayola store was pretty huge.
The back wall of the shop was one mass of coloured crayons.
Checking in on the flight home we made the check in ladies a few balloons...
and no we did not get up-graded. Mr Jacks was on our flight and helped us out.
We did get priority boarding and our names called out to get on the flight early.
It was fun and a nice way to spend 30 minutes making balloons for the BA staff.
The last two pictures.
We landed and these pictures were at the arrivals terminal at Heathrow.
All made from smaller pictures.
Thanks to David for a fun filled few days away.
Thanks to the ladies of latex for our welcome and taking us about in Florida.
Thanks to Sheree for organising the event.
And thanks to everyone who has looked in on balloon chat for viewing my journey.
If you wanted to sign up and post now and again that would be fab......thanks XXxx