The first weekend of April we took a family / business trip down to Santa Barbara, CA for the Rose Garden Tattoo Convention. This was the first year of the convention and actually the first ever tattoo convention in the city of Santa Barbara. J.J. Ortiz, Freddy Negrete, and Tim Hendricks did one hell of a job putting on a solid convention with an all-star lineup of tattooers. We had a ball and we can't wait for next year!