Last day of the conference.
This morning starts with the "world bazaar", about a dozen tables - New Zealand, Iowa, FFI, Indonesia, Oregon, of course, our club, and others. We came with 41 shirts, and had only 10 left at the end - mostly mediums and smalls, which are harder to fit on oldsters. So we feel we did well.
The only session was the wrap-up plenary session. Mostly thanks to this person or another, and more recognitions. Of course, a nice wrap-up from Joy Di Benedetto.
After a brief break, we head for optional tours.
Joy and I elect to go on a wine tour. We stopped at one owned by a man whose family came from Croatia, so Joy had an immediate connection. The wine was, unfortunately, only passable at best. We had a delicious lunch there - some really good lamb, and salmon.
On the way to the second stop we paused by a rugged beach area where we could look down on crashing waves, surfers and gannet nests.
The last stop was the second winery. Frankly, this one was a bust. Never did taste a wine that we liked. It seemed that the group mostly agreed with us, as they drifted off before tasting the last bottle. Oh, well. The grounds were nice and the trip had been pleasant.
We arrived back at the hotel late and had to hurry back to our AirBnB place to change and get back to the final dinner. The food was very good, and we enjoyed the company at our table. Even had Sue Lucy, our first exchange host. That was nice. She's great. It was noisy and we found that we were pretty tired. We left a bit early and headed back to our BnB, where we chatted with Ben, our host, a little and then headed to the good old bed.
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