We've Arrived!

Thanks to Tom Tom, we arrived safely in Baltimore this afternoon to gray and rainy skies, budding flowers and green leaves! The view from our hotel room (Kathie & Corrie) is almost too amazing to be believed; we are overlooking the gorgeous green outfield of Camden Yards! WOW! After taking in the view and unpacking, we decided that dinner was in order. After a brisk walk in the drizzle to the beautiful Federal Hill neighborhood, we arrived at a mexican food joint called...ELVIS. Not sure why, but the food was FANTASTIC! Corrie and I were accompanied by four of her terrific students, who came to the conference as a result of a grant Corrie wrote to pay for their lodging and registration. After dinner, we visited the Convention Center to pick up our conference materials and found these fun ribbons that we "stacked" on each other to express our art ed identity. "Runs With Scissors" and "I Color Outside the Lines" were popular choices. Then back to the hotel to choose our sessions with our trusty highlighters included in the NAEA conference swag bag. What happens when you put 6 art educators in one hotel room? Lots of laughs, great discussion of which sessions will be valuable for who...and who are THE art ed rock stars to see this week and one episode of "GLEE." I am a convert! Fairly early to bed to start the sessions tomorrow morning. We await the arrival of Kristin Goble and Renee Parisi and I hope I'll have some guest bloggers to inform and entertain you! Stay tuned....