Maggie on the Mainland

Last week, Maggie traveled to Philadelphia for the Annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy Conference. Maggie looks forward to this meeting each year, as the organization is her "professional home" of sorts and she enjoy catching up with all of her friends and colleagues who are scattered throughout the country. This year was particularly fun, as Maggie's good friends Beth and Sydney came up to visit! Maggie had a busy weekend, and ate many delicious dinners in Philly. Wednesday night was a mexican fiesta with Cameo and Maggie eating the biggest bowl of guacamole known to man. On Thursday her boss took the Child STEPs PhD-level team members out for a crab feast. Friday was a VCU Alumni reunion at Maggiano's, and Saturday night was a girls dinner (Maggie, Syd, Beth, Cameo & Julie) at South St. Souvlaki--the oldest Greek restaurant in Philly.

On Sunday there was a mechanical delay on the flight between Philly and Atlanta, and thus Maggie was stranded in the ATL overnight. It turned out to be not bad at all, as she was able to have a fun night of sushi and ice-cream with David Marder. Her Delta-voucher got her a room at the Clarion hotel that smelled like a licorice factory, but oh well. She arrived safely home in Hawaii on Monday afternoon and went straight in to work.

We are looking forward this week to cooking our first Thanksgiving dinner wherein we are not relying on our mothers. It should be an adventure...

Crab feast!



Maggie & Kelly Reunion



Cameo & Maggie at Cameo's Poster Presentation



Very odd and funny sign. You would only see this at a psychology conference.



Fun with the girls at dinner.


MSG Clan--4 Generations! (My former grad lab)



MSG and his followers.



Smooshed in the cab.



My awesome hotel room.


Brad & Chad.