Click here to see the Caitlin Hunter’s album of pictures from our last day at the conference.

Out of my and Kevin’s Craig’s List apartment on Rue Hutchinson — uphill from downtown — early this morning, looking forward to the coasting down to the Palais to pick-up my tastings tickets first thing…except, as I swiped my credit card to get my code to unlock a bike at the rack around the corner, I took a *little* too long, or I pushed the wrong part of the screen, and instead of displaying the unlock code, I got the welcome screen. When I swiped my card again, it said I had already taken out the maximum number of bikes…! So I got a little extra exercise this morning by walking downhill. I still arrived in time to get the first two tastings tickets handed out.
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Click here to see Caitlin Hunter’s photo album of her second day at the conference, including her TWO competition ribbons!

Bixi city bike rack near the Palais

The start-time for the conference is regressive: 7:00am on Thursday, 7:30am on Friday, and 8:00am on Saturday. I know this because you must get your tickets for the tasting events on the day-of that event, and those times are when registration opens. So this morning, I got up and took advantage of Montreal’s Bixi bike service to pedal the six blocks downhill to the conference center by 7:15 this morning and managed to snag one of the first tickets to the Fermented Foods tasting this afternoon. Yea!

Following breakfast the ACS held a Town Hall Meeting so that they could get feedback from the general membership. They were open to all topics their membership wanted to talk about, but they announced up front that the board was most interested in hearing what the membership thought about the *amazing* growth that has occurred in American cheese making over the past twenty years, and how ACS should plan for additional growth in the next ten years as growing pains become more and more apparent.
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