The NARFE Convention Begins

It's Monday, so the convention is starting this morning at 9 a.m. in full swing.

Meanwhile, because it's Monday, it's time to report my official weight for the start of this week.  It is 263.2.  Still two pounds to lose before I get back to where I was on August 17.  I don't know how it's going to go because we will now be eating lunch and dinner in the hotel through Friday.  Our lunches for Monday through Wednesday were prepaid as part of the convention.  There's a banquet dinner Thursday evening and a special breakfast Wednesday morning.  The other dinners and Thursday's lunch will be at one of the MANY restaurants in the hotel. Even if I make fairly decent choices, I think the best I can hope for is to stay the same.  We shall see what happens.

Since the next four days will be us sitting in meetings and voting on resolutions and eating meals in the hotel, there probably won't be any particular reason to write blogs.  If there are no more blogs until Friday or Saturday, you'll know why.

There are at least 11 places in this hotel to eat!  We do plan to eat at this buffet for dinner one night.

Huge theater with name performers is in the hotel.  In September LeAnn Rimes and Ringo Starr will both perform there among others.

Next to the big theater is a big nightclub.

View from our room.  The big tower on the right in the background is the Nugget, the hotel that hosted the NARFE convention that we attended in 2012.

President Thissen formally opened the convention last evening at our opening session that lasted from 4:30-7 p.m.