So much for Tom and his sure thing. Backup plans, anyone? -- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:12:10 +0930 From: Dave Wilson <aqua.green@bigpond.com> To: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> Subject: Re: AGA 2006 Convention Speaker Erik, Wow, what a way to make a person feel honoured and proud. The people in the AGA and SFBAPS have been my guide in setting up planted aquaria and have helped in ways they could never know. I left the public Aquarium a few years ago and have been struggling setting up a small aquatic plant business in the real world for a while now. Unfortunately it is at a stage where I can only get away for short time, one or two days at most. Thanks for the very kind offer however I must say no. My wife Robyn and I plan to take a trip to the US in a few years time and I hope to visit to the public aquaria over there at Monterey Bay and Baltimore. I want to visit the Australian exhibit at Baltimore as I helped John Seyjagat the Curator access Australian fish, reptiles and plants for the exhibit. The future trip will coincide with the Aquatic Gardeners Association Convention where ever it is at that time. Once again thanks for the invitation and generous offer. Cheers Dave On 19/3/06 3:28 PM, "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
Hello Dave, The AGA and San Francisco Bay Area Aquatic Plant Society have been working for a while to organize the 2006 convention this November, and as of today we've finally secured a hotel and date. Your name was actually at the top of the list by the SFBAAPS folks, and I concur. But I wanted to wait until that point before formally inviting you to speak there. I can give some details right now if that helps: It will be held the weekend of November 11th, talks will be on Saturday, and there may be a field trip on Friday. If you have a second presentation (especially if it's a lighter or shorter one), we would love to have you be our banquet speaker as well. There are four other speakers, but as the "guest speaker", the convention will pay your airfare, hotel and banquet. Would you be interested? Any questions I could answer? Regards, - Erik AGA President and unofficial speaker wrangler
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