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a time while they wait in line. We could also have music in that area, like the CD <br />our stormwater folks had recorded last year with clean stream songs. I'd even <br />be willing to spend the morning in that area rather than being a tour guide, if that <br />would help get some of these ideas off the ground for making the trailer - <br />ride waits a more pleasant experience. Debbie, I talked to the preschool <br />teachers I worked with, since I knew their school was an all -day one, and asked if <br />they had ever considered coming later in the day, when things weren't so hectic <br />They said that wouldn't work, because preschoolers have to take a nap in the <br />afternooh. But it might be worth asking the groups' of older kids if they'd be <br />willing to start with lunch and do the tour later. Becky Carlson, PW Admin <br />Hi Debbie - it was interesting hearing from all the tour guides, but I thought I <br />would send this to just you and you can do what you would like with it. <br />I thought for the most part, all went well. I liked the separation of Tiny Park, <br />although it was a little hidden and out of the way. I felt the most congested area <br />for my group was the police area. We did the trailer ride around 1:00 and there <br />was no line at all. My group met at 11:30 and the first thing for them was to eat <br />lunch. Well, the lunch area was so full, that all 50 kids and 20 parents had to sit <br />on the floor to eat their lunch. Nobody complained as they could se how full we <br />were. A little work is needed with the scheduling of the lunch times. Earlier that <br />day, I found a group that had lost their tour guide and were getting a little <br />frustrated. I tried to find their guide with no success, so I led the group myself <br />through the rest of the tour. All in all, everything went pretty smoothly. Thanks <br />for helping things be so organized. John Clark, PW POS <br />I had the best tour guide experience so far. A lot of things went right especially <br />moving Tiny Park. I liked better the vehicle display arrangements this year. <br />The single biggest problem was getting into the conference rooms in building 2 <br />for the airport and picture taking. My third time back finally found a small enough <br />line so we could accomplish the task. The second thing was the process of <br />getting off the bus and finding the group /tour guide out front, then getting started <br />on the tour. I have a solution for all this in mind but know it is probably not going <br />to happen. If we could just schedule the groups to come 5 minutes apart instead <br />of having 6 groups come right at the same time that would be most helpful. If a <br />group could pull up right in front of the tent, get off and go right into building 2 to <br />start the tour and not have any other group trying to do the same at the exact <br />same time things would go so much smoother. If the schools could just sing a <br />song before coming, or the bus could drive in circles it would help so much. <br />Good job to all for a great job well done, and I am thankful for the perfect weather <br />for this event. Randal Dale, PW Maint <br />To the committee, Thank you for the efforts you made this year. The new layout <br />was great. Our tour was early and as the lines got long, we simply moved to <br />another spot and came back to the congested areas later. I loved the layout for <br />'Tiny Park'. More freedom to choose for the kids and the flow seemed better. <br />We should look at the Building two layout and see how to speed up this first entry <br />into the event. That was the only real bottleneck we experienced. Tom Utt, PW <br />POS <br />