Posts Tagged ‘China’

How Many for Dinner???

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Ever wonder how many people are gonna show up for Dinner? Well if its a Super Bowl Party, plan lots of extra and the left overs will usually keep. The Pro-Player stadium sat 75,129 last time the Pig Skin Party was held in Miami ~ while the Orange Bowl Stadium officially recorded 80,187 for Super Bowl X  and last year’s number was 70,774 in Tampa.

Let’s Compare. According to Wiki: The “Un-Official number is 175,000 who showed up last year in Daytona to see Roush Racing’s ~ Matt Kenseth win the Big One while www.travelinbc.com is estimating 2.3 million attendees for the Winter Olympics plus another 29,000 in Media, Support Staff and Athletes.  The Tokyo Marathon averages 30,000 runners and The Harbin Ice Festival comes in over 5 million ~ of course, it’s China!

Events People Attend

Events People Attend

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Fabulous February

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Deep in Northwest Winter Sport

Deep in Northwest Winter Sport

Another week or so and the shortest calendar month of the year arrives!  Horoscope signs: Aquarius followed by Pisces. I’ve got two daughters born under the sign of water. Funny thing, I can’t ever remember them once telling me they were bored. Looking on the Know2Go calendar I fully see why. Just for funzy’s I clicked on the “Date” bar found on the home page then selected February 1st from the calendar ~ over 460 events listed. WOW! On further search, here’s some of what’s going on: The Harbin International Ice Festival in China (fabulous),  Nascar’s Daytona 500 “Superbowl” of Racing (start your engines), And speaking of Super Bowl ~ Location search “Miami” for that one. The Pro Am Bowling Tourney @ The Taj Mahal of Bowling Pins in Reno, There’s a Runners Marathon happening over in Tokyo (hey watch those elbows). On the business side of the calendar there’s ~ The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (hello, ma’ bell?) and The Grand Daddy of all Business Trip’s ~ The Winter Olympics is happening up in Vancouver (Ice Cream anybody?).  And if none of this stuff interests you, there is one big holiday in February: Valentine’s Day on Sunday the 14th. Recommend you call for dinner reservations now and if ever get the chance you should see the hardware that flies in Aspen on that weekend… Cheers!

Reserve Valentine Table

Reserve Valentine Table

Pig Skin Party

Pig Skin Party

Tokyo Toe Jam (marathon)

Tokyo Toe Jam (marathon)