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On a mission!

Here's part of the gang (photo courtesy of the Tillmans) looking quite determined! Pictured are Julie, Sheena, her husband Jeff, Karen and Ashley. (Ashley's started using a cane and it seems to be working well for her.) A little conference story....

We were trying to think of something special to honor Donna, her sister Sue who works several days a week in the Network and organizes everyone's travel and a big hunk of the conference, JoTina who regularly volunteers in the office and Kathleen, a retired banker that helps us with our financial stuff. Karen came up with a craft project to make roses out of Hershey kisses. They turned out beautiful! But, it meant there were a lot of people in the Tillman's room working on this secret project.

At one point several of us were heading to the Tillman room. I was walking behind Julie and suddenly there was a thunderous knock and someone sternly saying "Hotel security!" The whole group of us turned and quickly made our way down the hall the opposite direction. I don't know what we think the Tillmans would have been getting in trouble for - but geesh, aren't we a great bunch of friends! HA! And, by the way, the knock was on someone else's door.
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