On Monday morning we went to the NECC 2009 Exhibitor’s Hall. It was huge, vast, expansive . . . so American.

We were on a mission to get a Promethean and SMART t-shirt.

They made it so hard fill in forms, show a magazine bit of a hassle really!!!! Never did get the SMART shirt probably a Freudian moment.

We were caught in the rush of the crowd, jostled along, not sure where we were going.

Suddenly an arm appeared out of nowhere, a blue t-shirt was thrust into our hands . . . a BIG sloppy PEARSON shirt.

People looked at us as if we weird when we got on the bus this morning. “What’s with the t-shirt?”

Well you know what we’re not so stupid.

Standing in the endless snaking Starbuck’s line this afternoon a hysterical woman ran up to us offering congratulations and these two cute little ipod shuffles . . .

for wearing our PEARSON’s t-shirt.

Cameras flashed, celebrities for a minute, congratulated by our fellow coffee addicts . . . what a buzz!