From: "John C Mehling" <fmn@strato.net>
To: <balloondeco@balloonhq.com>
Subject: "What's New, Bruce?" Tour
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:04:35 -0400

Good Morning, Everyone...

Not that I really needed to share these little nuggets of information, since
many others already have, but I, too, wanted to publicly thank Bruce Walden
and all of the sponsors of his tour for putting on such a wonderful seminar.

I don't know if you guys realize it, but Bruce is DRIVING all over the
country in a Ryder truck...it never occurred to me that this would be the
only way he could reach all of us with all of his equipment and new cool
stuff (all I can say is Mag Mover, Mag Mover, Mag Mover...).  The truck has
got to be unloaded and then loaded again in such a way that he doesn't go
insane because he has so many things that he has to know exactly where they
are when he's conducting the seminar.

And although the announcement was made about turning off the cell phones,
sure enough, there were a bunch going off...one individual actually made an
outgoing call while sitting in her seat, if you can believe that one.

For those of you already signed up along the rest of the Tour, you really
have something to look forward to.  Bruce is wonderful, as always, and the
rest of us in the balloon industry truly have to be thankful that there is
someone like him willing to go through a grueling 10 weeks for our
benefit...thank you, Bruce.

And I would also like to thank my distributor, Lauderdale Paper and Balloon
in Miami, for sponsoring Bruce on this leg of his tour, as well as arranging
for Linda Bruce and Gary Wells to instruct the following day.  Linda was her
typical delightful self, and Gary displayed true artistry to all of us.  I
don't believe that this tag team is a part of Bruce's tour, just something
extra special that Ruth and Steve at Lauderdale Paper put together for their
customers.  Yvette and I enjoyed meeting both of you and we are grateful for
the opportunity you provided us.

That's it...time to get to work.

John C. Mehling, CBA
Forget-Me-Nots
Sebring, FL

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