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Days seem sooooo long here!
After what felt like three hours of sleep, my alarm clock on my phone went off and it was time to get up. I was so tired I was even considering skipping breakfast, but my roommates were able to pick me up a little bit, and we all headed down to eat.
So today was our first day of sessions. I really learned a lot. Most of the speakers were a lot of fun and kept them interesting.
At noon I got to help teach the session “Themes That Thrive.” Our yearbook rep, Candis, showed a lot of spreads from our book from last year, and this year. It was neat that she wanted to use our book for that. I got to explain how we kept the theme throughout our books, and why themes were important. It was pretty neat to see other people’s reactions to our book, and answer questions about it.
When the tour was done, we were starving. So we walked down to Red Robin to eat. There was a lot of kids from the convention there, it was pretty neat.
When we finished eating, we went to the convention center so that we could register. We had to play Whamboozal!!! Most of us had played last year in Phoenix, so we were pretty excited to play again. It’s always a lot of fun.
We got up at around 8 a.m. and went down to get some breakfast at the hotel. I usually never eat breakfast, and I have to say that this hotel’s breakfast was really good! Right after breakfast, we went back downstairs and got on a bus for a four-hour tour with Martin’s Gorge Tours.
It was a pretty long drive, but it was totally worth it. We stopped at Chanticleer Point and got to see the most amazing view. It’s pretty spectacular, we don’t have anything like that at home.
Whoa, it’s been a looonggg day! The seven of us and our adviser had to be at the airport by 6:30 for an 8:05 flight. (I don’t even get up that early for school.)
We had to transfer planes in Los Angeles but we weren’t there very long. When we were finally over Portland, it was crazy! I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much green in my life. Living in El Paso, all we ever see is brown. The Portland airport was HUGE!
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