hampton snowbird rendezvous.

we attended this same event last year with tom as a representive for waterway guide, one of the sponsors, but this year, we were just plain old attendees, although tom did have a table during the round table discussions (his topic, "what's in your toolbox?" has turned out to be rather popular).   the seminars were very interesting and informative but as a geek wannabe myself, i particularly enjoyed the topic on smartphones and tablets aboard - it completely blew me away, what's out there.  i love tech :) 

but the one thing that i took away from the seminars (besides too much food) was the realization that i'm probably not going to get much work done while we're traveling as tom is going to need an extra pair of eyes.  besides, i'll want to be looking around, too, anyway, since it will all be new and exciting.  oh well, i will work at night, i suppose.  i just hope i recover enough from this weekend first!  it was enjoyable but exhausting and i came into it already tired and beat up from that long and rough passage from crisfield.  i finally gave up trying to do it all and started going to bed earlier to get more sleep but in the mornings, i would wake up in a panic - "i'm late for work!"  and i'm afraid that i've managed to let tadhana's interior get away from me a bit.

in any case, we had a fabulous time just as we did last year - seeing old friends, making some new ones - cruisers all - learned a lot of new stuff and ate way too much food!  someone made a comment on the last day of the event: "we didn't know what to do with ourselves when they said that we were on our own for lunch!"  and this was after an enormous spread for breakfast, too.  breakfast, lunch and dinner and tables with snacks and drinks during the seminars.  everyone commented about there being too much food but everyone stuffed their faces anyway. 

what is different about this year's hampton snowbird rendezvous for us is obvious.  this time, we are not turning around and going back to deltaville like we did last year.  we are one of them at last - snowbirds!  does it feel different?   hell yeah :) 

i really should stop worrying about small stuff like work and keeping up with the cleaning or i'll miss the big picture.

hampton river at twilight