European Tour – Tuesday and the feeling is beautiful
May 23. Tuesday.
We had to get all of our stuff packed up and ready to go once again because we are being switched to yet another hotel. I checked on the sale of my books and I am happy to report that a lot of copies sold. Not bad for a first appearance. Gillian and Maureen do an excellent job volunteering at the conference bookstore. I’ve already gotten some very good feedback from people whose have started to read my book.
Anyway the feeling of the conference again was beautiful, and Dicken ended it with a very nice talk. Before that, however, Cathy Casey, Sally Wyse and I did a much better-attended breakout on addictions. I was not happy with the way I started out my part of the talk, talking about the difference between outside-in an inside-out prevention, but by the time Sally and Kathy spoke and I was able to chime in and help answer questions, I felt really good about it.
The Conference was beautiful, so many wonderful people, I felt really full, except by the end of it I felt very spent, really exhausted. Keith, Elsie Spittle and Judy Banks and I were all assigned to the same hotel and I would’ve loved to have dinner with them but I needed to hibernate. I was simply peopled-out. We did have a chance to hang out together on the very long ride to the Ibis hotel, right next to Heathrow Airport.
It was a bit of a snafu in checking in to the hotel because they did not have any of our names listed except for Elsie’s. We finally were able to get a hold of the conference logistics planner who had booked us, and finally we were able to figure out that it was booked under Kosher Tours, which is why the hotel didn’t have our names. Naturally it happened when everybody was really tired and wanted to get to their rooms.
All day long at the conference I tried to find Sharon Strimling because we were supposed to go out to Holly Mitchell’s house together tomorrow, but I couldn’t find her and apparently her phone was off and I found out that she left for Holly’s tonight. Miscommunication. Oh well…
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