{"id":1488,"date":"2010-08-18T08:46:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:45:27","slug":"san-antonio-or-ilca-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio (or ILCA 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, when I went to my biggest work convention, I took 3 girls from Lansinoh and we went out and partied hard.\u00a0 It took several blogs to write about that time in Orlando!\u00a0 This year the convention was in San Antonio and I think I can cover it in one.\u00a0 Either we did less or I’m just less verbose!
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The convention was at the Marriott Resort, just like last year in Orlando.\u00a0 And ironically the layout and pool is very similar for the San Antonio location.\u00a0 How a resort this size manages to feel like a chain is fascinating.\u00a0 We bobbed about in the water, drinking and ordering food at poolside.\u00a0 Most of us women, mostly in our 40’s, (although Mary Alice is a young mom of twins)… although with us was the CEO of their company.\u00a0 A brit who looks like an guest from the set of Fawlty Towers!\u00a0 Or rather, a typical Brit!\u00a0 But he’s a young Brit, in his 40’s, I think, like us.\u00a0 He insisted I Google his favorite British Stunt guy.. and I did.. OMG, you gotta see this! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Stevie Starr on Leno<\/a>
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Anyway… so we’re in the pool and Gina moves a little away from us and these two young men strike up a conversation with her.\u00a0 None of us are interfering or anything.. Gina can easily hold her own if these two boys are bothering her!\u00a0 But suddenly from across the pool her CEO yells out,<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Gina, how’s that syphilis coming along?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

OMG.. I died laughing!\u00a0 She shouts back a quick reply and we’re all in various stages of hilarity!\u00a0 The boys don’t join us but its clear they want to.\u00a0 Especially when Mary Alice starts quizzing me on my lovely online dating Cougar experiences.\u00a0\u00a0 I briefly thought about boldly demonstrating a Cougar\/Cub capture, which I could have easily accomplished.\u00a0 But decided discretion might be better with this crowd.\u00a0 Especially since the boss (my mother) has a more professional reputation with them.\u00a0 Besides we were going out for dinner and drinking and I wanted to join in, not play sexually. <\/strong><\/p>\n

We left the pool, changed and piled into two taxis.\u00a0 I, of course, ended up mostly with new friends who hadn’t heard many of my stories.\u00a0 LOTS of shock and laughter later as I shared we arrive at the Riverwalk of San Antonio.\u00a0\u00a0 Which is pretty packed with people and restaurants.. ALL of which are Mexican Cuisine.. so we finally, after walking up and then back.. picked one at random and sat down.\u00a0 There were about 9 of us!\u00a0 And so began the Tequila shots!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was a guest so I was unusually quiet.\u00a0 Enjoying watching for a change.\u00a0 It was on their dime so I just ordered one shot of Patrone in honor of B and desert.\u00a0 When everyone was done the girls wanted to go dancing… and saw a Coyote Ugly.\u00a0 So off we went.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What was amusing was I’d already done Coyote Ugly only a month before.\u00a0 So I was all, been here, done this!\u00a0 And they were very disappointed also.\u00a0 It didn’t really have a good section of Dancing on the Bar, so I couldn’t coerce or drag with me any of the ladies.\u00a0 They would have had fun if we could have done that.\u00a0 Instead we just left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comedy home on the taxi again and we all stagger back to our hotel rooms at 2am San Antonio time.\u00a0\u00a0 As usual I’m up, perky and awake, by 6:30am to be at the booth by 7am!\u00a0 And the Lansinoh girls stagger down in shifts.\u00a0 Everyone was leaving that day so it was mostly quick final sales and lots of goodbyes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And what did I learn on this trip?\u00a0 I learned I prefer to go to conferences ALONE.. where I can be wild and dirty in my hotel room if I want to!
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