Monday Errands and Baltimore NACE

On Monday Abby took the day off, and we tooled around town running some errands - but mostly we were looking for a tiara and crown Debra needed for the NACE meeting later in the evening.

We found a little girlie tiara, but had no luck whatsoever finding a crown for the "King of NACE". We also found me a pair of cute boots to wear with a new dress I bought recently which I was planning to wear to the NACE meeting.

We stopped for lunch at Five Guys - my first time having a Five Guys burger and fries. Where have you been my whole life Five Guys?!? It was AWESOME!



After sitting in traffic for like an hour due to an accident on 95, we made it home in time to get dressed for NACE and get there to help Debra with last minute arrangements. We ended up stopping at Burger King to see if they still had paper crowns for kids, and they did! Mission accomplished!

The NACE meeting was held at the new Baltimore Hilton which was lovely (not as nice as the BMW, but I'm slightly partial ya know...).



The food was good, but after a couple glasses of wine I abandoned my camera and didn't get any photos of the food.

Boy was that fun though! SOOOOOOOOO glad Abby and Debra talked me into going. Didn't even have to pay b/c Debra had a free meeting she gave to me - THANK YOU! - and I got to see a bunch of friends who didn't recognize me right away because when I left Baltimore in '04 I was still blond.

Abby, Vickie and I piled into a photo booth that was set up for us and took some cute pix.


We ate well - lamb chops over risotto, Thai spiced shrimp and noodles, delicious Tuna slices and such. This was a neat display of some kind of Lobster hors d'oeuvre - I didn't try one but loved the artistry of the garde manger folks who turned bits of lobster shell into a pretty little butterfly.



On second thought... is it a dragonfly? A bird? Whatever it is, it's neat!

It was so good to see everyone - and to make some new friends too! Hope I can get back to another meeting sooner rather than later. These people, the NACE people, were the best group ever. They were really my saving grace when it came to having friends in Baltimore that I didn't work with every day. Really, an extraordinary group of people I am so proud to have been a part of, once upon a time.