First the Dolphin
The Swan and Dolphin Disney resort is a beautiful place. It is actually two hotels that are kinda sorta treated as one resort. They do have separate front desks and you cannot check-in one and check-out in the other, as the SW Geek found out when we arrived (he went to the Swan when his room was in the Dolphin). The walk between the two hotels isn’t too bad.
The Dolphin appears to be larger. It has a large ground floor lobby (which is confusingly called floor 3) with a lot of lounge areas. There’s a bar off to one side that was frequented by SolidWorks World attendees on a nightly basis, and daily too. Unfortunately, the bar area wasn’t quite large enough to accommodate all the people looking to loosen up after a busy day.
The Swan
The Swan has a good bar. From what I understand, many upstanding citizens where debauched one evening by its karaoke night on Wednesday.
The 3 Matts
So, I’ve added the photo to the left here. This is for clarity so that everyone may know which Matt is which. I hope this photo clears everything up.
I’m kinda used to be the only Matt wherever I go. Its like, I’ve got a common name that usually allows me a certain degree of uniqueness. Well, not so in the SolidWorks online community.
Just for the record, I didn’t copy anyone with my name. I’ve had it from birth. Really. You can ask my parents if you don’t believe me. I’m not so sure about the other Matts though. They will have to give you their own references regarding the issuance of their name. (Just kidding guys)
To tell us apart, note that Matt Lombard had his bags with him the whole time. He was hocking his books from those bags throughout the convention in a true entrepreneurial fashion. Also note that Matt West can be identified by his jacket and glasses. As for me, is it odd that I really don’t recognize myself in that photo? I don’t know who that blond guy is…oh, that’s me. Dang, pictures really do add 10 pounds.
There are plenty of SW Matts. Matt Cummins works for TactonWorks. Matt Dunbar was on the main stage at SWW with Jon H. Recently had a comment from Matt Wallace on my blog. I know a Matt from Syracuse who uses SW for medical stuff.
Of all the Matt’s, I think I’m the oldest, so you all have to pick some other nickname, like “the other Matt”, or “Matt Chew” or something. I worked in a place with 6 mikes one time. Uk. I get called Mark all the time, which doesn’t help much , since ther are a lot of SW Marks as well.
Thanks for the light post! Now I know what you guys were up to. I got suspicious of West standing behind me getting a picture where I wasn’t supposed to be looking at the camera…
It was fun running into all you Matts out there. (no one spells it with 1t do they?)