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Wednesday, March 22nd
Today mostly all I did was travel. I had planned on taking the train down as my car is telling me it is on a break from long trips. It turned out the Hiett's were needing to be in Irvine on Wednesday so I hitched a ride with them. They had to be down there by noon so we left around 7 am. I didn't have anything until dinner time so I just was along for the ride and met a friend and we hung out, she took me to run the last minute errands one always has before traveling and I got some time to work on my talk and prepare.

Thursday, MArch 23rd
Today was the day of meetings. I met with the Pacific Southwest Operations team for their staff meeting. It was great seeing how they function and getting to know everybody better. I shared how if I were a kitchen utencil I would be a spatula. I then met with different members of the Ops team for them to tell me about positions on the team that are available. I also met with the HR Director about some other options. It was a day with a lot of thinking. Who would have thought that I, Carrie Sue could work on Finance for events in our Region?? I wouldn't have thought about it, but as I think about it it seems like a good position, it isn't the only thing I would be doing, I would also be helping plan events and conferences.

I finally left the office a little before five to go meet up with Elisa as her hubby was going to take us to LAX for our flight.

Friday, MArch 24th
We flew all night and arrived in Atlanta arounf 9:30. I made friends with a guy at the car rental place and got good directions. We hadn't had breakfast or lunch so we needed some Southern food......what is better than French Toast and Fried Okra with Sweet TEa!! Only in the south.

We then drove the rest of the way to the camp in Mentone Alabama. I had been able to go to Alabama before and love the south. There is just something about being around so many ADX girls that gets me ubber hyper.

Let me tell you, I was hyper. I was excited to be there and see so many people. I had to perform the Beaver Dance and some of the girls knew it!! It was basically be high energy or crash from no sleep the night before. I still didn't know where my cabin was, so that wasn't an option.

People accused me of being a ham this weekend, who me?? Never.


SAturday, March 25
The day of Convention. I was speaking on Diamonds and the process a diamond goes through to become what we see. We go through the same process when we come to Christ. From the lump of coal we need pressure and to be cut by the master craftsman to become who He wants us to be. As women of Christ we have to allow this process to happen and grow from it. The theme of the weekend was Bling Bling and it went over really well.

We got to hear from all the chapters about how they are doing. There was a lot of business to go over and more time in the Word. I love ADX and am always praying for it, that God would guide and direct us and that we would all be at the center of His will and not our own.

Saturday was a great day. I got four ADX shirts and only spent $15. Yay!!

Sunday and Monday really run together. Apparently I had kept eveybody up talking way into the night and we didn't get to bed until after 3- Really, if there are 4 people in a room talking is it one person's fault?

On Sunday we drove back to Atlanta and stopped by the GA Tech house. Those girls are awesome and God is doing amazing things there. We then had to be back to the airport. It was off to TN. We were delayed a bit but arrived y 11 pm (2 am if we were in AL).

I think we got back to Irvine by midnight. I slept and then got on a train and headed back to Fresno. It was now Monday, the sixth day of my journey.

Enjoy a few more pics


here are some of the West Coast ADX ers


yes Kristin that is more than just bling!



The Lovely Ladies of the National Board of Alpha Delta Chi

posted by Carrie @ 10:31 PM