scho5148 I agree about the salads and along the same lines I wish we had something besides sweets for dessert every day. While they were all very delicious, I'm definitely not use to having 2 desserts a day. Some fruit would have been nice...

Perhaps this is the place then...
http://www.sheratonferncroftresort.com/

Yep- I remember "Ferncroft" now that you brought it up, scho5148!

FYI...all of the Convention planning, including meals, etc. is done by the Meeting Planner at Executive Office & Grand Council.

At almost every Convention I've been to (except Cincinnati where we had Chicken for 4 or 5 meals in a row) there's a seafood meal at least once...just as there's usually beef at at least one, etc.

I wasn't there for the ORIGINAL Chicken Dance, though I've seen it re-enacted!

Yeah, the meals are pretty formal in that you have a salad and dessert for both lunch & dinner. I wouldn't expect it to change too much... In the future, we should advise first timers to list ANY dietary restriction (and maybe list PREFERENCES as restrictions). However - one year I was a veggetarian and listed that as a restriction. Well, I got my veggie meals... but usually there was a delay in getting served, thus holding up my table from eating. And, the veggie meals weren't half as good as those with meat. (Seriously, I'm not just saying that as a meat-eater; the veggie meals were LAME.)

That's odd, about the veggie meals! I learned years ago to order a veggie meal, and it's usually MUCH better than the usual one. Plus, you get sick to death of so much moo.

One place served me a platter of crudites & dip AND a plate of ratatouille!! That was wonderful!!

FD, I think we just threw off their routine by not being able to register when they said we could :p

Since I do eat chicken, that's pretty much what I had at every meal - not that it was *entirely* bad, yet I was kinda sick of chicken by the diamond banquet on Saturday night! :D

My best friend called me last night all excited. (She's the new president of the Brazos Valley Alum Assoc.) She decided that now that she and I are both AA officers, we HAVE GOT to go to convention in '07! So, we're gonna plan on being there! I am WAY excited about this!!! :)

I may have to join you gals!!!!

You should definately do that!!!!! :) I wish it was coming sooner.... I'm ready to go now! Hahaha.

If things work out for me financially I will be there for sure! My chapter and the chapter I advise are up for Golden Lion! This would be the first time for Gamma Theta-- second for Beta Tau!

I'm going to try to go also! Probably won't be as a voting or any other kind of official delegate (unless I get picked to represent ADPi as an officer of some sort, which would be awesome!)

I don't feel like digging through my files, but I believe that at this past summer's Convention the position of Meeting Planner was eliminated. It was decided that this was an unnecessary position.

We had an Alumnae Association meeting yesterday, and I have to say, this new group is AWESOME!!!! They are just so on fire - we're committed to the Lion's Share program, and we decided to try to start saving for the Convention. We're going to try to have AT LEAST 50% participation!

The position of meeting planner is still an active staff position at Executive Office... there hasn't been a discussion of eliminating this job as far as I was aware (being on Council last biennium) and the meeting planner recently helped plan the SLT meeting and was involved with the building dedication...