Monday, March 15, 2010

Natural Products Expo West

The Natural Products Expo West took place Friday - Sunday, March 12 - 14 at the Anaheim Convention Center.  Expo West is always an amazing time, with so many awesome people coming together in one place to make new friends, reconnect with old ones, and generally celebrate life, while also accomplishing some business, and this year was no exception.  
I worked the show as an Athlete Representative for two of my sponsors, Manitoba Harvest and Sunfood and split my time at the show between their two booths, with a little time to walk around Sunday and check a couple other products.  Vapor Brothers threw a phenomenal party on Friday night in their hotel suite, with live sitar and drumming, 4 different vap stations, open bar, and catered by Au Lac!  Definitely one of the best gatherings I have ever attended in my life!  All of that was just warmups for the Julian Marley concert later that night, all time! Then Saturday night was the Organic Roots concert that takes place every year, another awesome show, and Sunday finished up the show with a dinner at Au Lac with the Sunfood team, and this incredible weekend became one future Expos will be compared to for years.
Working the Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods booth with Certified Nutritionist Meghan Atkinson 
President and Co-Founder of Manitoba Harvest Mike Fata with the Founder of To-Go Ware Stephanie Bernstein, creator of reusable bamboo utensils that help you reduce your forkprint
Co-Owner of Sambazon Jeremy Black helping provide information on acai at their booth
Sunfood COO Brian Bowers with a raw cacao pod
Vapor Brothers party was one of the best ever!  Their booth rocked too!
Julian Marley sharing some irie vibes with the Natural Products family
Coconut Bliss and their vegan coconut milk dessert, while not raw a very worthy substitute for ice cream
Cole Meeker at Artisana with their mental coconut butter to sample
Sunfood team dinner at Au Lac to finish out one of the best Natural Products Expos yet!

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