Leave Your Mark

I almost drowned today. In a sea of teenagers. As I was making my way over to catering to gather lunch for our troops, I noticed more than a mob of people. I attempted to make my way through, but quickly realized I didn’t have it in me to kindly ask everyone to step aside for “hungry Polaroid girl”. Thankfully, I have made friends with the vendors and was able to take a short cut behind their tents.

Despite the crowd, Columbia, MD (outside Washington, D.C.) was my favorite stop so far. The venue was absolutely beautiful. There were these green things with brown trunks that provided this welcome thing called shade. Beautiful. As usual, the Polaroid PoGo printer was a big hit. One of our ambassadors refused to take “boring” pictures, so we had a lot of fun catching peoples personalities on camera. And can I just say that my favorite thing about the printer is that you can print pictures directly from your cell phone! ANOTHER girl showed up at our tent with the ‘old school’ version of the Polaroid. She said that while she had a slight attachment to her version, she was impressed with the printer’s capabilities. How could you not be? No ink? Sixty seconds? Portable? Prints pictures from your cell phone?

Also, to be noted is my brief encounter with Batman.

He seemed a little younger and shorter than I remember him, but when I called his name he responded and even agreed to pose for the camera. He liked the Polaroid PoGo printer so much that he came back later in the day asking for more pictures. I told him I would be happy to take his picture, but that he did have a job to do. I mean, saving the world isn’t something you just do on your down time, right?

I think that I am going to invest in a stopwatch. Mike and I have a rhythm when it comes to breaking down our tent at the end of the day. I think that we keep beating our best time. Perhaps on our last stop we will have a “Polaroid PoGo Olympics” and see who can tear down the fastest. If you are there, maybe you can cheer us on and console Mike when he loses. Just kidding! (Kind of )

We are on our way to Cleveland. We just passed through Pennsylvania and watched the sun set as we drove through the valley. It was pretty much amazing. Until next time….

Everywhere we go the Polaroid PoGo Instnat Mobile Printer is getting a great response!

People can’t believe that it doesn’t use any ink.

We’ve had a couple days off since our last stop in Miami, and while some would prefer to get some quality R & R, we decided to catch up with the Warped Tour in Elkton, FL on our way up to DC. I’m glad we went because I got one last chance to catch up with Matisyahu and his band one last time. We’re pretty much on a first name basis with them now, which is pretty cool. They invited us up on stage for their last Warped Tour show, which brought down the house. The crowd was really feelin’ it. I guess they wanted to give a proper send-off to Warped tour.

We stopped in Charlotte yesterday so Megan could catch up with some old friends; it’s always nice to get a little taste of home when you’re on the road. I, however, took that day to give the Polaroid PoGo vehicle it’s first check-up of the trip. Everything was tip-top so I devoted the rest of my day to a little printer charging in preparation for our 3-day run coming up in DC, Cleveland and Detroit.

Today we made our way through Virginia and its Blue Ridge mountains to our final destination; Washington, D.C. The printer got a little taste of history today as we showed it off near the Washington monument. This wasn’t my first time in DC, but it was the first time I’ve been up close to some of those landmarks. Although we didn’t have time to see it up close, we caught a glimpse of the White House from a distance. Sometime I’ll have to back and check it out, but for now we had to head out to our hotel to get ready for our three big days coming up. Until next time…