Gotta Love CHICAGO!

I am back and still trying to recover from lack of sleep from a very fun trip to Chicago! I love going with all my Pampered Chef friends and enjoying each others company while staying at the Palmer House Hilton. We flew out on Sunday, which happened to be my friend and Director, Christine Peterson's birthday. So we met up later that evening at The Cheesecake Factory to celebrate ! Yummy! We had a huge group and at my table were, LeeAnn, Tonya, Christine (the birthday girl) myself and Allyson. It was a nice way to end the evening after a long day of travel and hauling our luggage through the "El" as the subway is called in Chicago!

The next day we had a full day, beginning with an amazing Director Event training by Dr. Tony Alessandra - The Platinum Rule. I really enjoyed the training and found that I'll be using it to help me work with different behavior styles that each of us have. We had three full days of workshops and training and annoucements of new products - that's always a fun part! OF course going to Chicago would not be complete without shopping on the Magnificent Mile on Michigan Ave. I was able to find a really cute shirt and jewlery to match for a night out at the coolest dueling piano bar ever, Howl at the Moon. I went two nights and had a blast!! The last night there was a fun group and an "older" crowd. It was fun to hear what songs people request and my favorite was when they did, "Devil Went Down to Georgia", they had a girl playing the fiddle and she was amazing!! Here we are having a great time - Tonya, myself, JoDee, Allyson and Cass.

Another fun evening was our Executive Banquet. Our cluster decided to dress up like Molly Shannon in Superstar - and boy were we ever a hit! It was so fun to see people realize who we were dressed up as. I love that I am part of such a wonderful team of women!

There are so many fun pictures - that I had to include them in a slideshow - ENJOY!