Today’s adventures (Thursday) were a lot lower key that yesterday’s. The conference I came to California for started. So the first part of my day was the conference. I attended a session called “Stress Busters” talking about what can cause stress in your life, what that stress can do to your body, and ways to prevent, avoid, or change the stress. It was interesting and had lots of good information, but it is easier said than done to not let things get you stressed.
A group of us walked next door to Joe’s Crab Shack for lunch. When we got there, there was hardly anyone in the entire restaurant and we were seated immediately. They took our drink orders right away and had those out quickly. A few of us needed a bit more time to order, so the waitress left. It then took her a while to come back, and then took forever to get our food after ordering. Other tables that were seated after us got their food before us, etc. Of course you always get slow service when you are on a time schedule. We were a bit late getting to our afternoon sessions, but it was OK.
In the afternoon I went to the Advanced Treasurer’s workshop. I remember when I first came to this conference 2 years ago, I was a brand new union treasurer and just figuring things out. In this session I was almost the most experienced treasurer there – lots of new people! As the treasurer workshops usually are, it was fun, packed full of good information, and went by quickly.
When that was done, I quick stopped by my room to drop off a few things and then hopped in my (rental) car to head up to Burbank to meet Matt and Claudia, and their friends Brian and David. Although, maybe they are my friends now as well, since I’ve met both of them twice now. Two years ago and then on this trip! We headed to beautiful downtown Burbank for dinner. Had a good meal at a Chinese restaurant, but one weird thing is you had to order the rice separately if you wanted it with your meal. Then we walked a few doors down to a self-serve yogurt place for dessert. On the car ride back we had very funny conversations with innocent comments that were loaded with double (and I think sometimes triple) entendre!
Once we got back to the house, we visited and watched some game show related DVDs and had an overall good time. Then it was back to the hotel for some sleep!