I Just Pratt Myself

We're back from sunny, but cool, Orlando, FL. Our flight landed this afternoon around 4:30pm CT. You can't really be jealous of us though. Dave and I were there for a Maximized Living chiropractic conference (www.maximizedliving.com), so we didn't make it outside much at all, especially not during the day. Plus, it was freezing down there as far as Florida is concerned. We arrived on Thursday, where there was a county "winter weather advisory" in effect where some schools were closed and they even cancelled an evening prime time TV shows to air weather warnings for -- get this -- 35 degree weather. Yeah.. It apparently frosted the grass that night. Ha! Brrr for all of our group, though, who barely brought long pants, let alone sweatshirts and jackets with us! It did get into the low 70's on Saturday, but otherwise it was in the 60's and felt quite chilly.

We had a G R E A T experience at the three day conference though. We learned so much about our mission in chiropractic and cannot wait to continue saving lives and helping families here in the Cities!

So without boring you all with the details of the seminar, we of course got some pics and video of the night time fun that we had in Orlando. This was a national-level conference, so all of our friends and doctors from all over were there with us. We had fun going out with everyone and reconnecting since we're all up to so many different things.

On Thursday night we had most of our gang with us for dinner at an Irish pub in Disney World:

Left front to back: Vern, Nick E., Dan; Right front to back: Jake, Mikala, Dave, Elise

A toast to the night!

On Friday night we had the opportunity to go out to dinner with a doctor from Forrest Lake, MN. No pics of that night, but the guys had a great time talking and getting to know the doctor on a more personal level. Then on Saturday night, our favorite new docs were able to come out with our entire Northwestern University group -- Jay and Heather! They just graduated from Northwestern this past fall and are down in Florida training to open up their practice soon in Madison, WI. We don't get to see them enough anymore. It was such a treat for Dave to visit with them for a few hours!

And I have to put this on here... Okay, so Nick E., Dave and Vern were not in any way intoxicated during this. It happened one night while we four were waiting for the other guys to come down from their hotel room to go out. They were bored, it all started so fast..I was lucky to have my camera for this, because there were so many other funny moments that we wished we had caught over the weekend. Enjoy. :)

And here are my three oh-so-tired travel buddies while we waited to catch our first flight this morning. The seminar really wiped them out! First pic is Nick Pratt (the title of this post is dedicated to him) and Shane trying to gain energy from unhealthy sources.. And then there's poor Dave attempting to wake himself up.



That's a basic sum of our trip. If any of you want more info about Maximized Living, what it's all about or how you can get care from a chiropractor, just let us know. We're always happy to help!

Still waiting on Dave to get his "skinny" posted...the weekend kind of snuck up on him, but hopefully he'll have the time early this week between exams. We'll also be busy this week, besides our school and work schedules, planning our birthday party. We're acutally throwing ourselves a party this weekend -- cannot wait! For those who might not know, my birthday comes on the 29th and Dave's on the 31st, so we're two days apart. We're having a combined party on the 30th with a lot of our friends that live around here. I'm working on a menu right now. It's going to be so much fun! We're hoping to turn this into a yearly thing.. :)

Well bedtime for me now. I'm wiped after all of the flying today and lack of sleep over the seminar weekend. Dave is still out studying, but will hopefully be home soon. He needs his precious sleep the most!!


- Elise