Wow, what a fabulous week I have had.  I have been home for 24 hours now, the washing is all done, the suitcases are unpacked, i have had plenty of sleep, replenished the kitchen with edible items, checked my email and gone through all the photos.

There are way to many photos to post on here, so i have selected a few for this post and a few for Part Two which will hopefully be posted tomorrow.

So lets jump right in and start with the hotel.  We stayed at Hotel Lumiere and it was gorgeous. It definately didnt look this nice on the website nor did it look this large from the outside.  This photo doesn't do it justice but it looks like Christmas in there. The lights are just so magical.

and the rooms were huge, comfy and more than we expected.  The beds were like water beds without the water and the in room TV's are bigger than mine.  

The view from our window was of the Mississippi River and the gorgeous bridges that cross it.  There were these tiny tugboats that pushed numbers and numbers of things across the river.  I'm not sure what you call them, but at times these little boats were pushing two rows of about 15 of these things.

The woman's conference was fantastic. Fifteen thousand woman gathered in one place was just awesome.  Joyce was brilliant, as was Israel who lead worship and the guest speakers.  It was life changing and i have so much i want to say on it but i am going to save those for seperate posts.   

Saturday afternoon, once the conference was finished, we went for a walk through town.  We went to all the tourist spots ( those photos are in tomorrows Post Two plan) and did loads of walking. On a side note - i have NEVER had so many blisters on my feet.....and in places that i have never had blisters before!  Ouch!!

Two very cool things that we found on our walking journey were the Littleboat Cruise Lines, for cruises up and down the Mississippi River and secondly.....

this awesome skate park on a really large boat that was docked along the river. During the week we watched it cruising up and down the river with skateboarders skating on it.  There must have been some sort of competition going on or something because there were camera crew there too.  So very cool!