Dan at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport.
Our boarding gate at MSP
The onboard flight tracker
UK Customs, Architect's Drawing
UK Customs, reality
Dan thought these weird lighting and ceiling fixtures above the Customs area were “intelligence collecting devices.” Very sci-fi.
Here I am before my Friday night workshop. We spent a couple of hours setting up the room with my handouts and my audio-visual presentation. It looked perfect.
I felt confident and self-assured.
Everyone settled in for an enlightening evening.
And then the floodgates opened. About five minutes into my presentation, water started pouring from the chandelier directly over my head.
It literally poured buckets. Dan scrambled to move my computer and Kim's projecter out from under the deluge, and then moved the trash can under the main source of the floodwaters.
The British always say, “Keep calm and carry on.” We just turned the tables around and moved the presentation to the other side of the room.
Everyone read with three sample cards from the Wizards Taarot deck.
Everyone is interested in the symbolism.
Look who stopped in! That's Ciro Marchetti in the back! Dan and I had dinner with him later on Friday evening.
Linda was the second speaker on Friday evening. She did a great presentation on tarot magic and spells.
On Saturday morning, we all worked together to create a living Celtic Cross.
Our querent for this reading was Caitlin Matthews!
Caitlin Matthews
Our hotel room.
The hotel window
Our room
Another look at the bed
The view from our windwo
Another view from our window
Our first visit to a British pub
I was happy to be in a pub
We ordered the lunch special -- beef pie, served with mashed potatoes, gravy and peas.
This is the pub where we had our first lunch
A street scene
We bought postcards to send home
London souvenirs
Dan outside our hotel
Liz Dean
We had our second lunch at a second British pub
Potato leek soup with bread and butter
Followed by “pudding” for dessert
The pub was “The Mitre,” open since 1850
We met some c onference friends on the street
There was a terrace outside our conference room
The view from the terrace
I looked into the conference room from the terrace
Mary Collin
The Fifth Tarot
Caitlin Matthews showed us how to play “Find the Lady”
I was wary of the watery chandelier all day Saturday, but it stayed dry
Emily Carding offered a guided meditation.
We had dinner at a Lebanese restaurant. Here's our waiter.
