Presentation Day

Good Evening All~

Today we spent all day at the NUSA conference. So interesting!
Cathie and I were able to watch presenters in the Social Revitalization category while Pat attended the Alaska Botanical Gardens workshop. We broke for Lunch at 12:00 and worked on our presentation for 2 hours while on break. With Pat's help, we were finally able to get our presentation to under 15 minutes! We were SO excited. We were going to nail this thing!
We headed back to the conference center (only about 2 blocks away) to watch our competition.
We were up against some pretty organized forces!
We presented 2nd to last. Cathie and I were pretty nervous right before going on. Surprisingly, Pat was the calm one.
When we got up to the podium, Pat was able to get the Prezi lined up and Cathie and I started to feel a bit better. This was just like a meeting! We even let the judges and audience know that we were going to present like we held our monthly meetings. We were

sailing along! Telling them all about the fantastic projects you all have accomplished. We were on a ROLL!!!!
Then, out of the blue...dum, dum dum.....we get the 5 minute warning! UGH!!! Only 5 minutes left!?!?!?!?! But we have so much more to say!!!

We were able to fit the last of our presentation in....however, one of the judges asked (while laughing and telling us he needed a drink) how long "us ladies had been doing our road show?".
All of the judges had a great time. They asked a few questions but I think we answered most of them during the presentation.
We all felt really good about how we did. We really did nail it! We are all so passionate about this part of our lives and the work that all of YOU do! How could we NOT be passionate??!?!
That came across to the judges today.

Tomorrow at lunch we will find out whether or not we won. However, Pat said, regardless we should definitely receive the Ms. Congeniality award! lol

You all will be the first to know how we did after lunch tomorrow.

Signing off until then.

Love to all!

Tam