Trip down to Ft. Lauderdale to attend NGS Conference

I've spent the last couple of days packing and getting stuff ready for our trip down to Ft. Lauderdale where I'll be attending the National Genealogical Society's 2016 Conference which is sponsored by the Florida State Genealogical Society. I'm excited since this is the first conference of this size that I've attended - make that the first conference of any size that I've attended except for our local ones.

This morning I took Tinker to the groomer's for a bath and packed the car while he was getting a bath. After picking Tinker up at the groomer's we headed west to I-95. Since it was noon, we stopped at McDonald's for a late breakfast before getting on to I-95. We headed south on I-95 to Ft. Pierce where we got on to the Florida Turnpike.

We stopped at the Dunkin Donuts at 2:00 for coffee and a snack at the West Palm Beach Plaza on the Turnpike. We continued on south until we reached exit 62 and headed east on Commercial Blvd. We paid a total of $7.15 on tolls on the turnpike. We drove on down to the Ft. Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center so I could pick up
my conference packet.

There is huge sculpture at the conference center depicting three sailfish in different poses "jumping" out of the water and its quite impressive.

After leaving the conference center, we drove over to Fletcher's house and got there about
4:00. Fletcher had just gotten home from work and we unloaded the car.

Fletcher needed to go grocery shopping at Publix, so I went with him and we got subs from the deli for dinner. After dinner we watched a couple of movies on Apple TV. 

I spent my time going through the materials for the conference and editing my schedule for the seminars that I'll be attending. I had earlier opted to download the syllabus and had printed off the information on the seminars that I wanted to attend before leaving home. Some of the seminars that I wanted to attend were scheduled at the same time, so I printed off those handouts so I would have them no matter which one I chose to attend.