Time OUT!!

This is my second time trying to pubish this post. Another lesson in technology--but this is MY year to get it down. Ok....the weekend of March 20 and 21st Summer and I were in Time OUT! Yep.. we placed ourselves in Time OUT and loved it!!!
Time OUt for Women is put on by Deseret Books. It usually comes to Florida every year and around the time of Summers Birthday--so its become our weekend getaway. TJ got us a beautiful hotel close enough to the convention center to walk to it AND close enough to Sea World to walk to that as well! Ok... Day one-- Friday night we check into the hotel and get over to the convention center where Time Out was at. We got there just in time to see my favorite speaker--Cheiko Okazaki-- she was wonderful and I got pages of notes! The music and speakers were all wonderful! We had Hilary Weeks, Micheal McLean to entertain us! We laughed , listened and learned. Afterwards we went back to the hotel, found a deli in the hotel, got some sandwiches and candy and went to the hotel room and stayed up talking and laughing. The next day-Saturday we had to get up early. We had enough time to get some croissants and fresh fruit and walk to the convention center--we got there on time to get good seats and meet up with some sisters from my ward. We later saw a few sisters that have moved away or out of the ward--it was so nice to see everyone. Saturday was a full day of more music and speakers and uplifting messages--I couldnt stop smiling! We had lunch together as a group-- the sisters from my ward and Summer and I. The meeting began around 9am and ended at 4pm. We still had energy when it was over--I was so uplifted and happy and felt terrific! Sooo, we decided to walk around a bit. i spotted the "Peabody Hotel" I mentioned I had never seen the famous "Peabody ducks". Sooo, we decided to take a look. When we got there-- the "Duck Master" yep there is a "Duck Master" When the pics are put up --he is the one in red--he told us all about the ducks as they swam happily in the front fountain of the hotel. He told us they were going to make their famous walk in 20 min--so we decided to wait. Summer had gone to prom at the Peabody and so she gave me a tour. Then we heard the announcement overhead that the famous peabody ducks were going to make their walk. All of a sudden tons of people came around with camera etc. The Duck Master picked 2 kids from the crowd to help him. The red carpet was already in place. He placed the red stairs for the ducks at the front of the fountain. These ducks are specially bred from the original Peabody ducks and are treated like royalty. Then one by one they come down the stairs and walk the red carpet to their own elevator. The restof us took another elevator to the roof and saw the ducks go into the "duck castle"--soooo cute!!! After that we walked back to the hotel, got changed and went to the pool/hottub--really the hot tub mostly--we stayed in till our fingers looked like prunes. We went back to the deli-- more sandwiches and candy . We stayed up again and talked, laughed and watched girl movies. Sunday we overslept and quickly checked out, spent time at the pool, got some sun, shared Calzone at a closeby Italian resturant and walked to SeaWorld. We stayed at SeaWorld until it started to rain--we walked back in a light rain--not bad. Then decided to go home. Later, we ended the weekend with the whole family. TJ made us a wonderful dinner--linguine with clams and shrimp, and salad--yummm and we watched "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" PLUS Summer and Joey got us tickets to see "Cheech and Chong"!!!!