Hooray, I'm feeling a lot better! I think my whatever it was last week is finally going away. Woo! Made it through the weekend taking lots of painkillers, nice.
We had a busy weekend, you see. Ali, Piers, Rob and I went to Eastbourne for the Children's Ministry Conference. We went Friday lunchtime and arrived at about 4.30, registered, did a couple of seminars and then made our way to the B&B.
The B&B was probably the worst place I've ever stayed, not that I've stayed in many. I think it was called Merevale, it was on Cambridge Road. It cost £30 each per night and the first night it was absolutely freezing! I wore my dressing gown and socks over my nightie to try and keep warm, I've never stayed somewhere so cold. In the morning the milk had odd bits in it, possibly cream (though they weren't there the second day). The coffee was the strongest I've ever tried to drink, I put so much milk in it that it was cold and it was still horrible! Ack. Anyway, thankfully we weren't on holiday to enjoy B&B's, we were there for the conference.
Over the Saturday and Sunday we did lots of things, praise and worship and talks with all 1400 or so people in the same auditorium, and lots of seminars. I tried to do all the ones about songs, since that's mainly what I do at Hullabaloo. My favourite session of the weekend was the one with Ishmael. He seemed like a really nice guy and he taught us several songs with easy actions. I bought the CD he was advertising, should be able to use the songs without too much trouble. Hooray!
Rob and Piers did lots of the drama/storytelling/puppet type sessions, I'm sure they're going to do many entertaining things in the future.
We got to watch several very entertaining people. Steve Macbeth was hilarious with his disappearing banana trick (it was supposed to be a bandana but the wrong props were in the box, apparently). Bob Hartman was a great storyteller, as was James Hamilton. And Julia Plaut subjected us to a brilliant rendition of her classic song "Mister Cow".
We headed off home back to Leicester after a bit of lunch, making it back in time for dinner. Lots of stuff packed in, gave us plenty to think about...
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