Well, I’m back from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and none the worse for it. It was cold and wet up there when we got there but cleared up and got real warm on Sunday, of course as that was the day we left. They told us they’d had eighty and ninety plus temperatures the week before we showed up.
I think I learned a lot and had some idea’s I’ve had all along confirmed by an outside source. I’m still left with some of my original problem however when it comes to implementing some of these great ideas around my personal place. I need a good deal more of one kind of power or another to make it work for me personally. I need “hand power” (the hands to do the various things) and / or “money power”. Of course if I had the “money power” (that name speaks for itself, I think) I could just hire the hand power.
Lacking the money power I’m just going to be forced to do these cool things as I’ve been doing similar things in the past. When and as I have the time and energy.
Maybe if I keep losing weight with Weight Watchers I’ll get enough energy going to pull some of this stuff off.
I’ll tell you all more about the nitty gritty of the trip in another article. Here I plan to just go on, and on, perhaps ad nauseaum about what I thought, felt, and may have been surprised by.
First off I was expecting to be using the heck out of my poor little piece of plastic money. I did end up owing Joyce (the other volunteer who went with Coop) about six dollars for this and that because I didn’t happen to have cash money on me at certain points. However, most everything else was paid for by the Baptist General Convention of Texas in the person of Gerald Davis.
We were going to stay in an old remodeled house near MLK street in Dallas Thursday night but, due to a miscommunication between Mr. Davis and someone else involved with the house, several of the beds had been given away or borrowed, leaving only one large bed. Seems this person thought it was a husband/wife team and one extra; who could sleep on a couch, that were expected. So that was a no go. Instead we were put up for that one night in a hotel just behind Love Field where we would be boarding a plane on Friday morning.
We had no problems with security at all on the way up there. Once we were there we were checked into a hostel like building on the Wisconsin State Fair Grounds called the Tommy Thompson Youth Center. Great place even though the room Joyce and I were in had six bunk beds as well as a small, two sink, bath with shower and toilet. We also had to make up our own beds with the linen and pillows they provided. No biggie as far as I was concerned at that point. I just wanted something to eat and a place to crash.
That was the only night we ate out. We went to a place called Pauly’s which was a sports bar and grill. Coop and Mr. Davis had an eating contest with the all you can eat fish order while I had a mushroom and cheese burger with homemade potato chips. Yep. Way off the charts when it comes to my points on Weight Watchers. I did record it as it was about the only real meal I had that day. Then we walked back to the Thompson Center and I crashed after figuring my points. Good thing we walked back. The activity points I’d racked up running around the airports and with that walk took a bunch off the points for that burgher. Yea!
The next two day’s, Saturday and Sunday were filled learning stuff and meeting people. I was amazed at what they were able to stuff onto only three acres of land and what they managed to produce on it.
Then we had to leave early Sunday as our flight left an hour or two before the conference / workshop was over. Sadly, when we got to the airport we found out that our flight was delayed by about an hour. There was no going back to the workshop so we had our last meal out in Milwaukee there at the airport. That’s also where I finely used my plastic to buy a pack of gum and a book. I got the book as I suspected that I couldn’t get anything on my card if I didn’t spend at least five dollars. Whooee! Just what I got cost me ten dollars and twenty two cents!
This is also where I had my only problem with airport security. I went through the full body scanner and they found my pedometer. I guess it kind of looked like a belt bomb or something on the scanner cause they had me stop and show it to them and then patted down my waist. No problem as far as I cared. My imagination is good enough I can see just such a thing really happening! So I’m glad they caught it and me.
We had a one hour lay over in Kansas City Airport instead of a two hour layover and then got back into Dallas about nine thirty or ten as expected. The Captain of the flight kept the sports fans on board apprised of the basket ball score, much to Coopers dismay.
The three tired travelers got back into lovely Lone Oak about eleven or so Sunday night. I don’t know about the others but I took a shower and crashed.
If you want to know a little something about the folks who put on the workshop we attended you can go to www.growingpower.org and check it out.
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