ASHA Convention in Chicago

This past week has been a little crazy, but quite the experience. I got to go to the American Speech Language and Hearing Association's Annual Conference in Chicago! Now that doesn't really mean much to someone who isn't an SLP or Audiologist but it was pretty cool! My professor who helped me with my thesis this past spring submitted it to ASHA and it got accepted as a poster session, so my friend Jen and I (who did the project together) got to go present our program we developed. At first was I much more excited to just go to Chicago, I love big cities and traveling! But the highlight was presenting our poster, it was so cool to see people interested in something we spent six months of life doing! So it was totally worth it just for that experience!Me, Dr. Sandi Gillam, and Jen in front of our poster! Sandi was so great and helped set everything up for us.

Some other highlights were that there were no regular rooms left for early check-in at the hotel we were staying at so I got to stay in a suite on the 21 floor with a panoramic view of the city for only $99, and to make it better USU is paying me back for it! We were only there two days but we got to drive around the city and see a few things, have deep dish pizza (not that exciting I don't think we went to the right resturant for that), and meet a lot of interesting people. It was my first time leaving Gabrie over night so that was a little hard, especially after Luke told me she had been asking for me all day! When I got home I think she was mad at me because she wasn't excited, she just looked at me and then looked down! Luckily she got over that!Here is a picture from Navy Pier but I was too cold to get a better shot of the city! It is definitely called the "Windy City" for a reason!

Some other happening this week Luke's brother and his family came to bless their new baby Max and my good friend Becca got married. And some bad news BYU lost ):