Happy New Year! From the huge St Louis Dome ...

Picture 78711, originally uploaded by John Foong.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2006 was an incredible year - certainly one of the best all-round years of my life (not quite sure what KPIs drive that assessment, but it feels right!). Am looking forward to the changes and challenges of 2007 - and, from Day One, there's quite a few!

We closed out 2006 in the Edward Jones Dome - where the St Louis Rams NFL team plays. It's got a capacity of 66,000 - completely indoor (!) - and we were using 22,000 of that (the entire floor and most of the first "raft" of seats). And when we had praise and worship music for the conference, that staium came alive (As you can see in the picture) - it was a great atmosphere.

For New Year's Eve, we had some closing messages, lots of singing, and the typical Happy New Years hugs! It was a great way to close the conference ... though we stayed up until 4:30am anyway! Which didn't make the 7am wake up much fun :)