A Busy Weekend Indeed!

It has indeed been a busy weekend. My boss & I left for the conference on Thursday, got really lost thanks to horrible directions on the brochure, but eventually made it to our hotel in time for a St. Patty's day dinner & some green beer. The conference started Friday morning. It was good. Lots of good seminars that will be useful to me in this job. And it was a great place to start making some great contacts in this field as well. There were lots of good people there. Some weird ones, sure, but good people overall. (Lets face it, a lot of history people are really weird...so I should fit in pretty well I think.)

I got to learn about 19th Century Courtship, Ways of dealing with Interpreting Religion at a Historic Site, 19th Century PJs, & lots of other cool stuff. It was cool to hear about other sites & what their doing & how their going about it. But it also made me realize how good our programs are at the Metroparks. We are fortunate enough to have a strong base of public support in both funding & attendance of our programs. This conference helped me realize that not all history sites are that lucky.

Yesterday my boss & I got lost again on the drive home, but it was a definite cool thing. We ended up driving a ton of back country roads through some major Amish Country. It was awesome! It sparked so many weird & random thoughts that probably never cross the minds of any normal person. We ate lunch surrounded by Amish & people of some other religious sect that wasn't quite Amish, but we didn't know what exactly they were. German Baptist maybe. It sparked lots of questions & I'm a dork, so I'm ready to do some research on my own to satisfy my own curiosity's. It bought a book about Amish Culture to dig into as soon as I'm done with Bob Dylan's Chronicles. I'm looking forward to sinking my teeth into it!

But I must say, it's good to be home again. Looking forward to a day of doing nothing and enjoying it.