The park conference in DC went off really well. It was the first time I'd been back to the city since I was in high school, and it was fun to be there.
We had meetings with our legislators in congress (well, technically, their aides). We called on them in support of the US Paralympics committee, who runs a national program of providing adaptive recreation to wounded warriors in the communities around US military bases. Metro Parks's participation with them helps us to offer sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball and other activities, and it's a partnership that the Paralympics uses as a model around the nation.
It was a really wonderful experience.
But after a whirlwind week on the east coast, it's good to be back in Tacoma. Work doesn't stop because we're gone and working from the road can get old trying to find coffee shops with wifi to camp out in for a few hours.
Of course, we often work out of coffee shops here in Tacoma too. But at least we don't have to spend time finding them!