Phi Mu Convention Day 1

(L:R: Katie, Lisa, myself, and Lindsey)

Wow, I'm so far behind in blogging!!!  You'll just have to forgive me! In 3 weeks I've been from SFO to FLL for Convention, from FLL to SFO for a day, SFO to DFW for work, DFW to SFO and then hosted a sister for a week and then went to my first Junior League event!  I'm exhausted JUST WRITING THAT!  Goodness.  Anyway, I'm going to try to do my best to get you all up-to-speed!

I had some extra (meaning A LOT) of airline points and I already paid so much money to just attend Convention, I decided to turn my points into an airline ticket. Problem with that was that I had limited choices and there just aren't that many direct flights from California to Florida that don't take A WHOLE DAY to travel. I left at 8am PST and arrived at 5pm EST. So basically I missed the whole first day, which really didn't matter because I was an alumni visitor so I didn't have meetings, but alas, that meant missing a whole day that I could have spent by the pool!

Anyways, I jetted from the airport to the hotel to throw my bags down, changed clothes (because honestly, I always feel disgusting after sitting on a plane) and headed down to dinner.  Finding my friends, I quickly caught up and we got down to the business of eating. I must say, attending DU (don't want to explain what this is because I don't like talking about work on my blog...but my friends know what I mean) completely SPOILS me because the whole time at Convention I was like "well, this wouldn't happen at DU or this food is CRAP compared to DU). Anyways, we continued and then had a speaker talk for a while.  

Our whole Convention theme was "Charting the Course", so we had speaker Rick Barnes and I loved his lists and message about our responsibilities as Fraternity women. After dinner we headed back to our rooms. 

Well, like typical fashion, Convention is held in super expensive hotels. This place was particularly expensive and drinks were out of our budgets here. So, Lindsey, Katie and myself took a walk to the local Publix!  You could definitely tell no one around here walks because we got SUCH strange looks walking down the street. Well, could have also been because it was maybe 10 pm at night. Oh well, we walked to Publix and grabbed some alcohol and food snacks. Hey, what can I say? Convention is expensive!  By the time we got back, our friends got out of meetings and we all met up and drank and talked the night away!

Wanna read about last Convention's first day? Click here.