After months of planning and anticipation, it was finally SDSI conference week! Marci, Wendy and I all met at Leslie's this morning to load all of the cars with supplies and caravanned to the Hilton Bayfront for our busy week of activities.
The view from our room never gets old!
Then it was up to Larky's amazing suite for lunch and a brief meeting. We put the girls to work putting together all 125 of the faculty gift bags. This year was a San Diego themed basket with a collapsible cooler, Padres beer, Margarita mix, pistachios, Palomar water, sunscreen and some seashell chocolates from a local candy shop. The girls worked for hours and helped a ton!
The rest of us went downstairs to prep our registration desk.
After a quick change, we walked with Dr. Esch to Donovan's for our annual kickoff dinner. We were spoiled with cocktails, oysters, mac and cheese and asparagus appetizers.
My dinner was perfect…filet, shrimp, au gratin potatoes, veggies and an Unfiltered Orange cocktail. We topped it all off with chocolate mousse, a brownie sundae and Creme Brûlée. Heaven! The final toast was with everyone taking a sip of a B & B in honor of Dr. Esch's father and will likely continue as our traditional toast. Looking forward to a wonderful week ahead...
I came back to the room and found these two cuties sharing the room with me.
