Day One of my Louisville Kentucky trip.

I started my Tuesday at 5am. I had to get Abbey up and ready and off to school. While on my way home Tracy calls and has gotten misplaced not too far from my house but I kept driving through dead zones (aka cow pastures) so thank goodness Janet was already at my house to flag her down. Noah and I returned home at about 7:50 in time to see Janet and Tracy off before I had to stick Noah back in the car and take him to school. It couldn't be easy enough that both my kids have to be at school the same time.

I return home with time to spare so I get ready and wait for Jenjen. She got caught in some unexpected traffic and was delayed but let me tell ya... That metalicar did us right. We didn't leave my house till 11am or a little before and we were in L'ville 5hrs later with only one potty, gas stop. The metalicar gets much respect on the highways. We only went on the wrong road for about 145 miles... but all was good we were just on an alternate course.. I would have never known the difference because we got there in the same amount of time that Tracy, Mark and I did last time.

We got to the hotel and walked in to check in. The first people I saw when I walked in the door of the hotel was DKM Debbie and RoseAnne... I knew them at once. It was awesome to finally meet them both. We checked in and made it up to our room and waited to hear from Janell who was very late getting on her plane but only got there maybe an hour or 45 mins after we did. It was great seeing Bonnie, Lynn, Bobbie again... I was excited to stumble upon Cher and Leslie who were our neighbors! Meeting Cher was awesome and Leslie is really cool too. She is a keeper. I hope to see her again someday also.

Janell got there and we got her settled in. Let me tell ya... between all my stuff and Janells I am surprised that Jenjen didn't toss some of it over the balcony. Jen packed everything she needed in one bag and well lets just say Janell and I might have over packed but I'm just sayin

I am leaving out a lot I know... I wanted to start documenting my trip, I knew if I waited much longer my thoughts would be all over the place. I will go back and add pictures later.

We met downstairs for dinner and met Janice, Ginny and Mary (chipgal whom I have no memory of on any of Sue's forums but all was good) and as you have heard Sue Grafton shows up and we get all giddy and giggly! Fantastic... and she looked gorgeous! She was so nice and signed away while we snapped pictures and talked, chewed food and caused a ruckus about the place. It was just fabulous... Sue decided it was time for her to leave so we wished her goodnight and told her we would see her tomorrow.....

After dinner we met in Tracy and companies room for some hard labor. We sorted all sorts of doohickeys and gizmos well into the night. It was fun... we eventually got a good system going and knocked it out. I was not involved in sewing. They did allow me to use scissors but I was supervised. Eventually I made it back to the room and me and my roomies talked way to late as we did every night and the huge dark circles under my eyes all week were proof of that. It had actually been a long time since I had seen Jen and even longer since I had seen Janell so it was fun to catch up with these 2 on this trip.

I will pick up with Wednesday later on this evening.
I have much to say about the day... It was awesome!