A huge thanks to all the people that came out to help with the arena!  Samantha came nice and early to get a good start, Mark helped her paint the walls.  Jess helped with the painting when she arrived, Jay helped Kel and I with the grid while Justin worked on the equipment.  Brian was there all day as well helping with the paint.

In this picture you can see the Uni-Strut that the grid will be attached to.  We placed two 2x4 backing on it to prevent any bowing.  All the support is coming from the poles.  The wood looks pretty bad, but that's what you get for using old pieces saved from a little room we took down.  They don't look good, but the grid will be straight.

You can see here where the thick strut meets the thin strut which was used on the wall we built because we didn't have to worry about long spans with no support.  All of the strut is hung with relatively small bolts, we have to get the proper size and go back through, but that won'e be nearly as hard.

Here you can see the paint job done.  Parts of the ceiling were done with the sprayer before it broke.  The rest was all done by hand.

Here we have Justin setting up his area to work on the equipment.

We accomplished a lot, still so much more to go.  We have about half the painting done, and half the uni-strut.