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\"Swan<\/a>First the Dolphin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, the bar area wasn’t quite large enough to accommodate all the people looking to loosen up after a busy day.<\/p>\n

The Swan <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Swan has a good bar. From what I understand, many upstanding citizens where debauched one evening by its karaoke night on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"3<\/a><\/p>\n

The 3 Matts <\/strong><\/p>\n

So, I’ve added the photo to the left here.\u00a0 This is for clarity so that everyone may know which Matt is which. I hope this photo clears everything up.<\/p>\n

I’m kinda used to be the only Matt wherever I go.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Just for the record, I didn’t copy anyone with my name.\u00a0 I’ve had it from birth.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 You can ask my parents if you don’t believe me.\u00a0 I’m not so sure about the other Matts though.\u00a0 They will have to give you their own references regarding the issuance of their name. (Just kidding guys)<\/p>\n

To tell us apart, note that Matt Lombard<\/a> had his bags with him the whole time.\u00a0 He was hocking his books from those bags throughout the convention in a true entrepreneurial fashion.\u00a0 Also note that Matt <\/a>West <\/a>can be identified by his jacket and glasses.\u00a0 As for me, is it odd that I really don’t recognize myself in that photo?\u00a0 I don’t know who that blond guy is…oh, that’s me.\u00a0 Dang, pictures really do add 10 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n

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