All told, like 15 people ended up coming. It was the most fun I've had in a while (despite how much it hurts to catch frisbees with freezing cold hands).
Later that night I got a call from Jeff Scott. The toy fair had ended and he and a bunch of friends were headed over to the big field in Central Park with a big box filled with light-up FlashFlight frisbees!
Twenty minutes later (the Javits Center is HUGE) we'd managed to find Jeff! Jeff started a company that makes a really awesome light-up frisbee called the FlashFlight. (Seriously, if you like to play frisbee, you should check them out).
We met because I bought one and wrote about how awesome it is on this site. Apparently, my write up generated a lot traffic for his site and he emailed me to thank me and told me that he'd invite me out for a drink next time he was in NYC! Now it's a regular thing and we try to get together whenever he's in town. Here's Jeff in front of his company's booth at the Toy Fair.
After our big fireworks show, I busted out my battery-operated light-up frisbee that I'd brought along (yes, I know, I'm a huge nerd) and we played frisbee in the dark!
If you're into frisbee at all, you should totally buy one of these. They're amazing. (Especially in NYC where it's hard to find a field that's empty enough to play frisbee - if you have one of these, you just wait until it gets dark and then after all the people leave you can just light this up and you've got a field all to yourself in the dark. It rules.)
