A Week In Vegas

I arrived in Las Vegas last Sunday to spend the week at a work related conference. Hayman dropped me off, than he and Countrychick headed on to Arizona for the week to see his parents, sister and niece. My conference started on Monday afternoon. I spent each day from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. listening, learning and interacting with 85 other colleagues from various western states learning about youth, volunteer and program development that pertains to my field of work. Wow...that sounded weird..."my field of work." A year ago, who would have thought I would have a "field of work." Well whatever....I do have one now and I really learned a lot this past week. I had every intention of blogging from Vegas, but it didn't work out that way. I was short on time and very, very frustrated with the wireless connection in my room. I was so frustrated that I finally gave up all together. I was able to use a colleague's laptop to check work related email and that was all. I spent five days getting to know my colleagues from the various counties in my state and it was a pleasure. This group of ladies were Amazing!! I had so much fun getting to know all of them. I also met some great people from Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Utah and California. We (our group from Nevada) only made it out to the strip once while in Vegas and that was on Thursday evening. We had dinner at the MGM and then walked back along the strip to our hotel. I was able to take this video of the water show in front of the Bellagio Hotel. I have other photos to share as well, but those will have to wait for another day.

It is so good to be home. I spent all day yesterday in my jammies. I didn't want to move from the couch. And I watched ten episode of the series Las Vegas. Guess I just couldn't get enough.