Embarking on a trip of this nature, mixing business with pleasure encompassing four continents, wildly differing cultures, on planes trains ships and automobiles together with a range of weather conditions sufficient to confuse the usually reliable Michael Fish (yeh right), offers up a number of challenges in terms of 'getting ready'
Clothing, flights, visas, accommodation and a hundred other things you know you have to do plus almost as many you never thought of all have to be sorted prior to departure and you can guarantee one or more of the ‘very’ important items is missing as the day draws ever closer (driving licence for me this time so a nice eight hour round trip to Swansea for my sins). It is amazing that something we book so far in advance, something so important almost catches us by surprise, creeping up on us and shouting ‘Boo you are going round the world tomorrow’. "Me, no, never, oh of course, oh shit".
It’s the same in the Fancy Dress industry and very akin to some of our customers buying habits:
“I need a Evil Jester Halloween costume for tonight, can you get it to me”
Where do you live sir ? (99% of these calls are from panicky single young men)
“Outer Hebrides”
“Hmmm probably not then”
“Do you know anybody that can”
“Merlin ???”
We at Alterego Fancy Dress do appreciate that you guys leave things pretty late and we do pull some amazing cats out of the bag but please give us a chance and do remember for future reference that Halloween falls on the 31st October every year......and has done since God knows when!!. Only joking it keeps us on our toes
Anyway I digress, all the Alterego Team Andy Sarah Tom & Lindsay and Big Frank, were making the first part of this week long trip to the Halloween Party and Expo Show in Houston Texas USA, an opportunity to review and buy all the new costumes for 2011, renew acquaintances, foster new relationships in the Industry and of course have a laugh away from the office. For Andy and Big Frank it was the first part of a more challenging trip which would not see them home again until the beginning of May.
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