October 20, 2011

Road Trip to Bismarck

My co-worker Curt, and I were just pulling into Bismarck....when I discovered 2 different dates on the emails. The ESP advisory committee agenda that I had printed out said October 20th. The first email from Carla said "See you Friday". I called Leanne. She said that the meeting was Friday. Help! We were in Bismarck on the wrong day!

Instead of going to the Radisson where the meeting was to take place (the next day) we went to the high school where all the sessions were to take place. There were a lot of vendor booths where we picked up a few freebies. The sessions didn't start for another FOUR hours!

We went to the mall.... which really excited Curt. lol.

We took a leisurely lunch and went back to the school. We ran into a bunch of ESPs. They were hanging out at the NDEA booth. They kept apologizing for the date mix up. They offered to let me stay in their hotel rooms but.... they didn't offer the same thing to Curt. lol

Curt and I went to the only session that Curt found interesting... and would you believe that that session was cancelled?! So we slipped into a boring PBS session. Then Curt went out the car to take a nap. I went to a Member's Benefits session. There was one more session that I would have liked to see on technology but I didn't dare ask Curt to stay another hour.lol We left for home about 3:00.

Surprisingly Curt stopped at the Buffalo Mall in Jamestown. I couldn't help but think that if it was me and my girlfriends in the car we would have done the same thing.... but I don't think he wanted to shop... just an excuse to stretch his legs. He was really being a good sport about the whole thing.

One plus for the day was that Curt drove us to Bismarck in his little Bimmer. (that's how Curt says that it's spelled.... I'd spell it like Beemer) and it was a beautiful day for a (long) ride. :)