Hola from San Antonio

I arrived at The St Anthony about 7pm and fell absolutely in love with its historic ambiance. I haven't had a time to explore yet, but that will happen tomorrow. I will post some photos then.

I've been traveling all day and it is 9:30pm here...but my body is still on Eastern time and thinks its 10:30pm.

I've already met someone who is here for the NAECED conference. We rode together on the shuttle from the airport to the hotel. She is Sue Tate, a Diocesan librarian for the Diocese of Seattle, Washington. She spotted me getting on the shuttle and figured out I was here for NAECED too. How she figured that out, I forgot to ask her.

The church that Sue attends has an average weekly attendance of 600-700 people. Yep. You read that right. Their budget is enormous. Yet she talked about having some of the same issues we have at Grace Church--tiny in comparison.

Sue and I both were gleeful at the weather here. Even at 6pm it was in the low 70's and lovely. As I was leaving Bradley this early afternoon, the snow began to fall heavier, the plane had to be de-iced, and I was dreading the worst. But I was blessed with an incident free flight from Hartford to Dallas as well as the Dallas to San Antonio leg.

Tomorrow we gather for the first time in the early afternoon. In the morning I will set out to explore a bit.

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Goodnight...more tomorrow.