Well, I am officially back in the office. I have been since late Thursday night and between work and home, I am still trying to catch up.
The event that I went all the way to Minnesota for went well. As well as it could have. Pretty much without a hitch.
We flew in Sunday, toured the wonderful town of Rochester’s Walmart and Office Max then ate dinner before hitting the road and heading to the hotel. Then next morning we were up bright and early to head to the event sight to prep for the 115 or so attendees. They started showing up around 1 PM with the last set of the guys coming in around 10 PM. Then next morning as my alarm was going off at 5 AM all I could wonder was why the heck does my cell phone only have a 5 minute snooze!? After I made sure all the vendors were set up for their classes for the day and the attendees were where they should be I hit the road!
I figured since I only really needed to be at the event to help with the registration, I would make the 3 hour, 157 mile trip through the cornfields to Cumberland, Wisconsin to have a quick visit with some family I haven’t seen in a very, very long time. I stayed with my great Aunt Carol and Uncle Bob. Aunt Carol is my grandmother’s sister…the grandma I was really close with. And even though they were 10 years apart, there were times when I swore I was looking right at Grandma. We had a BBQ where I ate entirely too much and had fun visiting with some of my second and third cousins. Uncle Bob and Aunt Carol drove me around showing me some of my family history. I saw the graves of some of my great, great (I think even one more great) grandparents who come here from Sweden in the late 1800’s. I saw what was left of the schoolhouse my grandma went to. She never went to school past the 8th grade. Drove along the farm road that she walked every day to that school. It made me realize just how much I miss visiting her every day. Needless to say it was a fantastic, albeit short visit.
I was back at the event site in time for dinner. During the last of their classes I helped clean and pack up. We ended the evening with a raffle for the attendees then headed back to the hotel. I packed up all my stuff then couldn’t remember if I was supposed to meet the guys in the lobby at 6 or 6:30 the next morning which meant another 5 AM wake-up for me. We headed back to the event site to finish packing up then hit the road one last time, this time? For the airport!
I had to right back to work on Friday. And when I left, I still had 71 new e-mails left to read. Instead of worrying about that, I decided to enjoy my weekend with my family. While I enjoyed the time, I discovered a few new “tricks” Ry learned while I was away…
Creepy little kid…
I mean holy crap, really!? She learned how to count to 10 while I was gone!? What the hell? I never want to leave again.
But guess what? I do have to leave again. In a week and a half in fact. I figured it wouldn’t be any big deal, even considering I will be gone over my birthday and our anniversary. We never really do anything for our anniversary so I figured Andy really wouldn’t care. Turns out? He does. Talk about a wife fail…
Oh, and since I know you missed me…