Well, once the IWI conference began, we were on the run from sunup to sundown on Tuesday morning until late Friday night. Thought I’d have time to keep up with pics and blogs, but no such luck.
We had a wonderful, wonderful time at the Dallas Gaylord Texan Resort. What an incredible place! In the end, we forgot that we were indoors. It had a constant maintained atmosphere of about 70 degrees with river walks and plantings, and so you forgot you weren’t ouside. I would highly recommend it to anyone seeking a great-escape, especially the pampering at the spa!!
We headed home fatigued, yet full of new ideas and leadings from God. So…we keep, keeping on and waiting to see where He’ll lead us next.
Mom spent the morning with Spencer in his week long School of Audio class. He’ll be learning from one of the most knowledgeable guys in the business who puts on all the big audio events for things like the Super Bowl and other large worship conferences. Matt, our sound guy from India will also be teaching and running the sound for the event. Spencer was so excited after the morning event that he could hardly eat lunch and ran back to watch them all set up and be with “the guys!” I’m so glad. He really loves it!!
Just a quick blog. The girls spent the afternoon at the mall shopping. Dad went back to the spa and we converged for a wonderful, lovely dinner at the upscale Ama Lur, southwestern cusuine restaurant at the Gaylord.
More tonight…
Just a day of complete relaxation at the hotel!
We started the day out at the indoor pool and then Nana and Gail decided to go exploring and check out the outdoor pool. The rest of us got cold in the pool and decided to check out the spa services. The spa comes with the room and what an incredible treat it was!
Gwynneth and Gail were all excited to share their walking adventures around the miles of perimeter of the hotel, but once again we were rained out. Driven in by the rain, we all converged at the, you guessed it, the Java cafe, our favorite place to hang out and people watch. We decided we could spend most of our time there just watching the day go by and all the interesting goings on. Spencer decided it was time to take some candid shots before going up to our room for an afternoon siesta.
Refreshed and ready for dinner, we made our way downstairs and had a leisurely dinner. Matt, our way-cool sound guy from India, saw Fay and came over to say Hi and met the rest of the family. We’re getting excited about the start of WI’s events. Spencer will begin his 5-day School of Audio classes with Matt and Vic tomorrow. Mom will sit in in the AM just to see how it all goes, so we decided to take a walk to the convention center and check out where we’ll be attending the events. Just as awesome and incredible as the rest of the hotel. Once again we were drawn by music coming from one of the rooms. Fay peeked inside and discovered that the WI worship team was rehearsing for the week’s events. Excitement is in the air!
We ended our day at the Java Cafe and made our way up to our rooms. A good kind of tired and relaxed, Fay types on into the night, uploading pics and writing blogs while everyone else falls quietly to sleep…