the Wry Baby Blog

It’s the last day of the New York International Gift Show and it’s time to say goodbye to all our cool baby stores, our hip gift stores and our fun show friends. We shed a wee tear as we wait for surly union guys to deliver the Wry Baby crates to our booth and we solemnly pack and tape gun as fast as we can so that we might beat said show friends out the door and to the nearest bar. The union Gods smiled on Wry Baby and we got our crates from storage relatively fast and we were outta there in about 5 hours. That’s actually a record time!

It’s twelve o’clock noon and suddenly the Javits is on fire with thr roar of tape guns! The race to finished is on! We’ve already cleared the back wall and now have to get the organics display broken down in case our storage crates come early. Notice that the carpet on the bottom right has already been removed.

It’s almost 1pm and, as you can see, we broke it down big time. It always amazes us how fast we can bust it down. But the promise of cold beer is a strong motivator.

Can you believe EVERYTHING fit into this compact pile of stuff!? I’m talkin’ about the whole booth’s worth of stuff! Seriously good packing.

It’s 5pm and we’re Audi. This is the last we see of the road show until the next NYIGF in late January. It’s always weird to give one last look before leaving knowing that when we do this next, we’ll have a new president, there will be snow instead of humidity and our beards will be totally shaven off. Speaking for myself, of course.