My trip to Atlanta at the end of September was good-not quite as fun as I thought it was going to be, but still a good experience! My primary reason for going was to help run the booth that Northcentral University had set up at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). The booth was busy the first evening and part of the next day, but fewer and fewer people came each day as the conference went on.
I was able to attend some of the classes at the conference, including a plenary session where John Gottman spoke (he's done TONS of research on relationships in the "Love" Lab at the University of Washington. He continues to do research on relationships and for parenting at the Relationship Research Institute). He was quite an engaging speaker. I often quoted his findings to couples that I was seeing for therapy, and I still would if I had more clients! Anyway! Here are some pictures:
This is a picture of the INSIDE of my hotel at night. It was a HUGE hotel. I think it had 47 floors. I was on the 8th floor.
This is a picture looking down from the 8th floor of the hotel.
A downtown Atlanta street. I occasionally made it out into the light of day and walked near the hotel.
I could see the Bank of America Plaza building from my hotel window.
A live jazz band playing in the food court of the mall next to the hotel. VERY enjoyable to listen to!
These were three of the many crawfish that Garrett, his dad, and his brothers caught near Pine Top, Arizona. They had "Boys Weekend" the last weekend of September. I was in Atlanta at the time.
This is what the crawfish looked like when they were cooked.
