Vegas Trip!!!

I had a seminar/training meeting/retreat in Las Vegas this past weekend for Relay For Life. I was gone friday through sunday and had to leave Nick and Wedge behind, so before I went I left Nick a little surprise.

Each sticky note had a different reason why I love him written on it. Let me tell you, it took a REALLY LONG TIME to do this! Writing the reasons took maybe an hour, but trying to put them on the wall took FOREVER!!! I thought the sticky notes would just stick to the wall, but they didn't so I had to roll individual pieces of tape for each one which wasn't a quick process. And then trying to get the shape of the heart with square pieces of paper wasn't easy. And trying to make all of it look proportioned was kind of hard. All in all I think it turned out pretty well. By the time I got to filling the heart in with post-its I was pretty much done dealing with this project so I just started slapping them up there! Patterns and organization no longer mattered at that point.

Here's a picture of the whole room to kind of see how big it is. The picture really doesn't do it justice. I lost count inside the heart, but there's close to 200 post-it notes.

As for the trip to Vegas it was really good. I took another girl from my committee with me whom I had never met before so I was a little nervous about that, but my fears of how our 8 hour drive would end up turned out to be really silly. We hit it off right from the beginning and I'm pretty sure we never stopped talking the entire way there!!! And it turned out that we were roommates for our two night stay which worked out nicely because we were both a little nervous who we'd be roomed with.

We were in meetings all day saturday. Our day started at 8:00am and was non-stop until 5:00pm. We learned SO much about how to make our Relay For Life event successful and the overall goal of holding relays. There were several different schools there including USU, UofU, Reno, and UNLV. It was really helpful to learn what other schools have done with their relays.

This is my third year being on the committee for Relay For Life at USU and my fifth year overall. The past two years at USU I was the Sponsorship Committee chair, but this year I really wanted to try something new. I might be in over my head, but this year I am the Team Development Chair which is going to be a lot of work, but I'm really excited. The girl that carpooled with me (I don't want to mention her name because I haven't asked for her permission to be on my public blog) is the co-chair with me. I think we're going to make an awesome team working together and I'm confident we're going to have a successful Relay this year. I'm definitely not saying the last two years haven't been successful because the absolutely have, but this year is going to ROCK!!!!