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Here I am at the entrance to the Riverhouse Convention Center in Bend Oregon

The interior of the Conference Center

I love the Large open beam design.

The main Hallway that leads to the rooms in hte center part of the building

The Building is actually a building within a building. The center is one huge room that has electonically movable walls which allow it to be divided into 10 seperate rooms.

With each room capable of holding 75 people comfortably. All the projectors and screens are built into the ceiling and drop down when in use. The cool thing was that no matter how the rooms were configured each and every room had the projection screen capability.

I was totally fascinated by the engineering aspect of the building alone.

It had a downstairs that was an exact duplicate of the main floor.

The dining area for the awards banquet

just a couple of photos of the people in attendance

Our Boss after presenting me an award.

Both the Owner and his daughter wanted to have pictures taken with us.

It sure felt good to get home. The Conference was 2 1/2 days long ( normal) but I was on hte go the whole time. I was session monitor for all the sessions which meant that I had to do head counts and evaluate the speakers, as well as make sure that the speakers had everything they needed. It was a very large building and made for a lot of walking back and forth between session rooms. I also gave a presentation to the Owners and Owner Agents concerning our Model Documents program. The weather was nice while we were there but it got cold at night (29 degrees) during the day it was in the high 60's to low 70's. After we got out of meetings during the day then we had to have dinner with the bosses or I had to attend a board meeting then the next night it was dinner with the bosses again. It was a nice change from the normal routine But it is always nice to get back home.