Convention #2 - DONE!

Convention #2 is done and out the door.  We finished in Grand Junction Tues. night with our banquet where the Southwest conference held a drawing from the early registrants for free room at their 2011 convention in Prescott, AZ.  Guess who won?  We did!  What a surprise.  At the banquet Karl was the MC and he was kidding about wanting his name to be pulled.  The Police Chief's wife drew the paper and said the name - we had her repeat it and then the SW chairman verified it.  What a hoot!  Also a very special drawing was done for a quilt, but I don't want to spoil the surprise on who won that.  For the CA-1 readers ask at the next monthly breakfast.

We left Grand Junction on Wed. morning with ourselves and 4 other friends from CA-1 and drove to our house in NM.  I will admit that I very glad to get there Wed. night and be able to sleep in my own bed and be in my own environment.  We stayed there until today (Sat.) when we left and are stopped in Flagstaff tonight.  While we were in NM we got our fill of New Mexican food and took our friends on a balloon ride (a first for three of them) and a trolley ride around ABQ to see the sights.  The weather cooperated with us - very still in the AM for the ride, mild temps and sunshine.  Any rain that was predicted went around us and hit other parts of the area.  Today as we rode we were about 30 outside of Flagstaff when we noticed a very, VERY dark sky in front of us.  Knowing that we were going to be heading right into it we stopped at a rest stop and donned our rain gear.  That was a good thing because even though we skirted the large thunderstorm there was still rain coming down.

We are going to take a couple more days to get back to CA because we really don't want to be riding a long time in the heat that we know will catch us to us.  When we get back home on Mon. night we jump in again to get things at the CA house before we take off back to WA.  I know you would  probably never thought you would hear me say this, but I am very tired of traveling at the moment.  I want to put down roots for a while.  Guess that won't happen until we get back up to WA in early August.