WHAT AN INCREDIBLE WEEKEND!!!!!

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I really appreciate the comment left by Jeff telling me that I needed to move my counter someplace else in order to not have it pop up every time I posted. I realize that would be a great thing to do, but after checking all the editing choices "posting, creating, edit, moderate, settings, and all under that, layout and under that", I can't figure it out. I tried a few other places to post it, but it would not let me save it. Oh well, thanks for bearing with me. I kind of like seeing that number there each time I come. Lets me know some one else besides me has read this.

My weekend started at about Noon on Friday. That is when we finally got on the real road (even when we left, while we were running errands around our area does not count, only when we are on roads that we do not travel on regularly do I feel like I am on vacation). We stopped at Chick-fil-A for lunch and to me that was a PERFECT start. My favorite fast food. Awesome sweet iced tea.

We got to the place to check in (I got this package that paid for our hotel room, free tickets to the Beach Blitz and also $50 gift card or Redskin merchandise). It turned into this whole thing where they were trying to say we did not qualify, and I was not sure it was going to work.

Anyway, it did, and our room was not only accessible but it was like this little suite. It had a bedroom with a living room and couch with pull out bed, and a kitchen, complete with dishes!!! Friday night we indulged in the best pizza, so good I have been thinking about that pizza ever since we got it last year!!

The convention center the next day was fun. We saw friends we made there in 2006 and have seen each year. That was fun. Then we saw people that we know in real life!!! The lady used to work for my Dad and her husband was there also. That was weird. I did a lot of strange things to get autographs, like yelling at big people who could've squished me, for trying to cut in line. Also, busting through the barrier when the players finished their "clinics" and were signing for kids, I had some people move the barrier and off I went!! I thought all weekend, "I am not from here, I am not going to see these people in the grocery store and probably not until next year, so I went for it!!"

I came home with another autographed football, a clock, a picture, license plate holder, football necklaces like for Mardi Gras, but these are burgandy and gold little footballs, a T-shirt (early bday present from my sister), a puzzle to do and then frame, a book about our HOF inductees, and lots of memories.

I was determined to have a funnel cake while I was there. At the tailgate party Sunday, by the beach, they had a band, some Skins would come out and they had a booth that sold funnel cakes. I got one and the wind starting whipping up. Yep, anyone who has had one is laughing already. That powdered sugar went EVERYWHERE!!!! On the guy next to me, the lady on the other side, on me, my 'chair, EVERYWHERE! I tried to block it from the guy on the left of me, because he looked kind of mad. The lady on the other side was just laughing. But then the wind became sadistic and just kind of blew in a circle. It was awful! But I finished all I could eat, anyway. When I got back to the hotel, I took my watch off and wondered how the band could have gotten so worn in one day. Yep, it was that POWDERED SUGAR!!! Mom found more today on the wheelchair and also on my bag that I was carrying.

I will post more in the next few days about my adventures this weekend. I had to post some of it. It was toooo much fun, and this is turning out to be a really good, relaxing, fun idea.

Have a great Monday evening! Kudos to those who have posted here. I have since changed the settings here so anyone can comment here, registered or not. I did not know that boundary was set.