<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mscichlid @ Jul 21 2008, 04:58 PM)
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Overall, I had a great time. CCA had the most members to attend this event! Our own Amanda took 2nd place in the wild Discus class, but I feel she should have placed first. Hans won all the other discus classes. Our James Kelley was a winner as well! Ron Leftwhich volunteered to auctioneer. He blew those folks away!
The next ACA is in Cincinati. I already have plans to save my money to attend. I'm going to show at least 10-15 fish this time. We should have a CCA competition for the highest club member participation and a competition for the most awards won by a CCA member within our club.[/b]
WOW! A CCA competition to find the best competitor. A novel idea!
ACA Atlanta 2008 was a blast. There were CCA members involved in everything: showing fish and WINNING, selling fish out of the sales room and in the auctions, judging fish, main speakers For the record: Our own
Li (MonsterfishKeepers.com) sponsored the speakers, CCA sponsored one of the award classes, Francine sponsored the photography award, we even had an auctioneer! Did we have a GOOD time!
There were CCA photographers capturing everything on film. I am watching for our club photographers visual display of all we did. The Atlanta aquarium was tremendous: huge Mississippi River tank overhead that you actually walked under. Botanical gardens sidetrip was well worth it. Fernband Natural History Museum was interesting too. The best part about the sidetrips was having time to relax during the day with ACA friends.
If you plan to attend ACA 2009 I recommend that you arrive early, stay late, and go on the side trips. OH YEAH - go to lectures and take notes so everybody thinks you know what they are talking about....
Hats off to all of you who shared stories of previous ACA meetings. Thanks to you I went to ACA 2008. I plan to be in Cincinati for ACA 2009!
Later,
Marge