Expo West

March 14, Thursday

I flew into Orange County Airport last night. Michael left a little before 8:30 AM for a meeting. I walked to the Anaheim Convention Center and picked up my badge. At the booth, they were serving mocktails made with strawberry kiwi Water Drops. 

Jorge came over and I spent quite a bit of time talking to him. He wanted me to do a video so we did a couple videos and he put them on his Instagram and tagged me and showed me how to put them on my Instagram story. 

Later, Michael and I walked around a bit. Michael had some more meetings. I stood by the Water Drops we were giving out for free and talked to some people. Michael and I left around 5:30 PM and headed back to the hotel. We walked over to the Mexican place and got a ton of food and came back to the room to eat it which was perfect. It was a nice day.

We saw this cute booth as we were walking around outside the Convention Center.

March 15, Friday

Michael and I slept in and we made it to the convention center just before 10 AM. I spent the next three hours talking to people about our Water Drops and other products. Jorge came by again and we took a couple more pictures. Michael had a couple of meetings. We served some alcohol-free Mojitos made with mint, lime, and our coconut Sweet Drops. 

We also went to the hot products building but I didn't have a lot of time because I still needed to go to Downtown Disney. I said goodbye to Michael, went upstairs to try some cookie dough, and then walked over to Downtown Disney. I talked to Emily on the phone while I walked. I stopped at Marceline's Confectionery and got about six bags of English toffee, some peanut clusters, churro toffee, and peanut butter bars for Michael. It was pretty heavy to carry all that stuff to the hotel. I had to walk to the other side where the Disneyland entrance is on Harbor Boulevard. It was kind of sad walking past Disneyland and California Adventure without being able to go in. 

By the time I got to the hotel, it was after 3 PM and my intention had been to leave the hotel and be all packed by 3 PM but it worked out fine. I got into my Uber around 3:45 PM or so. I got to the airport a little bit after 4 PM, got through security, and had plenty of time before the plane started boarding. My original flight was for 4:20 PM but I had found out this morning that it was delayed till 5:05 PM. They actually left before 5:05 PM which is weird. This is why you can never be cutting it close for a flight but I got lucky today. The boys did great while we were gone and they had checked off all the things on the instructions so I appreciate that. It was a quick trip, but I'm glad I was able to go.