Last year, when I went to my biggest work convention, I took 3 girls from Lansinoh and we went out and partied hard. It took several blogs to write about that time in Orlando! This year the convention was in San Antonio and I think I can cover it in one. Either we did less or I’m just less verbose!
The convention was at the Marriott Resort, just like last year in Orlando. And ironically the layout and pool is very similar for the San Antonio location. How a resort this size manages to feel like a chain is fascinating. We bobbed about in the water, drinking and ordering food at poolside. 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. A brit who looks like an guest from the set of Fawlty Towers! Or rather, a typical Brit! But he’s a young Brit, in his 40’s, I think, like us. He insisted I Google his favorite British Stunt guy.. and I did.. OMG, you gotta see this!
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. None of us are interfering or anything.. Gina can easily hold her own if these two boys are bothering her! But suddenly from across the pool her CEO yells out,
“Gina, how’s that syphilis coming along?”
OMG.. I died laughing! She shouts back a quick reply and we’re all in various stages of hilarity! The boys don’t join us but its clear they want to. Especially when Mary Alice starts quizzing me on my lovely online dating Cougar experiences. I briefly thought about boldly demonstrating a Cougar/Cub capture, which I could have easily accomplished. But decided discretion might be better with this crowd. Especially since the boss (my mother) has a more professional reputation with them. Besides we were going out for dinner and drinking and I wanted to join in, not play sexually.
We left the pool, changed and piled into two taxis. I, of course, ended up mostly with new friends who hadn’t heard many of my stories. LOTS of shock and laughter later as I shared we arrive at the Riverwalk of San Antonio. 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. There were about 9 of us! And so began the Tequila shots!
I was a guest so I was unusually quiet. Enjoying watching for a change. It was on their dime so I just ordered one shot of Patrone in honor of B and desert. When everyone was done the girls wanted to go dancing… and saw a Coyote Ugly. So off we went.
What was amusing was I’d already done Coyote Ugly only a month before. So I was all, been here, done this! And they were very disappointed also. 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. They would have had fun if we could have done that. Instead we just left.
Comedy home on the taxi again and we all stagger back to our hotel rooms at 2am San Antonio time. As usual I’m up, perky and awake, by 6:30am to be at the booth by 7am! And the Lansinoh girls stagger down in shifts. Everyone was leaving that day so it was mostly quick final sales and lots of goodbyes.
And what did I learn on this trip? I learned I prefer to go to conferences ALONE.. where I can be wild and dirty in my hotel room if I want to!