The Petroleum Show

Well, I'm here at the Petroleum Show of Inuvik. It was fun yesterday. I am representing Stanton's Distributing. I was here last year and it was fun.

To explain this show: It is basically a trades' show. All the different businesses around the arctic and further south. There are a lot of different trades here. From airlines to grocery warehouse stores like Stanton's. I get in for free since I'm in a booth right now and representing Stanton's. Some booths have those fabricated bags and you walk around and you get free stuff. From Pen's to ball caps.

There are are bunch of other little go-nads. For example, I got a toy. Its one of those wooden cubes. There are like 5 to 8 pieces of wood in different shapes and you try to re-build the cube again. Someone one from another booth gave it to me because they said I looked bored. I conquered it in 3 minutes. Well, not exactly three minutes but around there. There are also door prizes and things like that. I don't really participate in those. I just take the pens and hats and fun little toys...I just got a flash drive for free. Someone saw that I had laptop and handed it to me!! Isn't that cool?! I love this show. Its a one gig. Man, that is awesome.

Stanton's booth gives away those chip clips for big bag chips. We also give away oranges, candy, granola bars, and fruit bars. Oh, the most important at this show...free water. We put bottled water on ice. It gets really hot in here and so my booth is the popular one because we hand out free cold water. Some people have called me a Saviour but thats not what I am for those of you who know me.

There is a booth that does popcorn. Popcorn in those machines. I'm smelling it right now and I want some. I'll get some in a little bit. The booth next to me is giving away little beach balls. One booth gave out numbers to hang around your neck and if you found the person that has the same number as you, you would get a ipod...for FREE!!! I never found that person though. Oh well, I don't really have much of a use for an ipod.

A couple booths down, Aklak Canadian Helicopters. They have a prize to give away. It is a little helicoptor. They sell at Wal-Mart of about $90. They're flying them right now. They've been popular when they were flying them. But once they were done flying the little things, people moved on.

I see my dad right now. He's walking around with a bag and probably filling it up with pens and other little things for his office. It says a lot of money on office supplies. They have notepads, day planners, year planners and other stuff like big calenders for the year. My dad just took a couple of granola bars. He said he was hungry.

Alright, I'll let you guys go. For His purpose, Shane Gordon.