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I’m back home! I had hoped to be able to keep up with the blog while at the conference, as well as the listservs – but alas the wireless at the hotel wasn’t working. I didn’t see the point in paying for a LAN connection since by the time I was back in my room at night, I was pretty much ready to just fall into bed.

I didn’t get to take very many pictures this year, but luckily a number of HPS’ers have already been sending me pictures to post to the blog. If anyone else has some great shots they’d like to share, I’d love to have them for the blog and the photo archive.

I arrived at Donna’s house mid afternoon on Wednesday to help get ready for the conference.

Conference preparation is truly an amazing operation. It’s hard to explain to everyone what it takes to make conference happen every year. I know everyone knows it takes a lot of work, but it’s more than that. It’s the thousands of details, little ones and big ones.

There’s the photocopying and printing alone. When I arrived the office was abuzz with 10 volunteers photocopying, stapling, making folders for all the various meetings occurring at the conference etc.

We all worked until past 1:00 am when we’d managed to kill both of the copying machines and three printers. Grin!

Here’s a few pics of all the many things that had to be packed up to take to the hotel. When we left Thursday about midday for the hotel, there was a caravan of vans and SUVs hauling everything to the conference.
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