Women of Faith

Toy, Dana, Lisa, Carolyn, and I went to Oklahoma City for a Women of Faith conference November 1st through 3rd. What an experience! The rest have been many times, but this was my first. We left Thursday when everyone was able to leave work and stopped in Tulsa for dinner. Don Pablo's was our destination, but we had to deal with a very unhappy Toy when we discovered it was closed. Applebee's was good, but just did not measure up.

Friday we took our time getting around and were able to find an IHOP at about 10:30. After an extremely entertaining time in the car with Onstar (I think we saw ALL of Oklahoma City), we eventually headed to Garden Ridge--what a place! We met up there with Sara, my sister, and she guided us to On the Border for "linner" (about 3:30). The food was great (according to everyone but Dana) and we had some entertainment! One of the waiters (a bit cocky) was delivering about 8 drinks at a time to a table and spilled a couple at one of the booths. He proceeded to walk through all the people in the foyer who were waiting to get in and dumped several there. Drinks are continuously sloshing over the edge of this tray, yet he continues on! He gets to our table and tells Sara he is walking behind her and will probably drip on her! He FINALLY gets to his table, and I think he has one drink in tact. He puts it on the table, takes his tray, and heads to the kitchen dripping liquid ALL THE WAY! What a show. Needless to say, we didn't see him the rest of the evening---we're thinking fired city!!

And the reason for our trip---the conference. There are really no good words to describe the feeling you have at a conference like this. There were about 16,000 women there. I guess it was sort of like kids going to camp. You were either laughing or crying most of the time. The speakers and artists were WOW! My favorite music was when Nichole Nordeman sang and when Sandi Patti sang How Great Thou Art---amazing. Patsy Clairmont was a fabulous and inspiring speaker and pretty much kept you in stitches! How can someone older than me be that peppy! Anyway, the stories are endless and we'll be laughing for a very long time when we think of or see styrofoam boxes!!