Tucson

Our church choir held a 2 1/2 day retreat in Tucson this weekend. Home base was a Marriott Hotel...

 but rehearsals and social times were at a beautiful old church...

We accomplished some good practice on music we will offer in future church services, as well as rehearsing music for this year's dinner theater production... Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. We had several meals together, as well as fun, fellowship, and devotional time.

We also joined the St. Phillips choir in singing several anthems during the worship service on Sunday morning. It was interesting to participate in an Episcopal service.... quite different from the Presbyterian service I am used to. We even took Communion with the rest of the choir and congregation. It was a beautiful.... long..... service!

I rode to and from Tucson in a van pool with other ladies from the choir. I didn't drive, but took Mr. Gee along anyway, He was a helpful tool for all of us as we tried to find our way around Tucson. He provided many laughs with his loud "RECALCULATING" in response to our wrong turns and alternate routes.  He did a good job of getting us to wherever we had to go.

Of course, too much eating and too little sleeping were built into the retreat, but all that can be fixed now that I am at "Home Sweet Home" again.

All-in-all, it was a good weekend! But I am always glad to get back home again... safe and sound.

NOTE... I had a problem with Mr. Gee on this trip. He stopped talking. I went into the Settings and saw that "no voice was available" which was puzzling. After trying to reset the voice, unsuccessfully, I decided to try something I do when my Macintosh computer starts to act weird. I unplugged the power cord, which was plugged into the car outlet, waited about 15 seconds, and plugged it back in. When I started up Mr. Gee, his laryngitis has been cured and he was ready with helpful directions again! An easy fix!!!