Finally, vacation is here. It's time to get out my Hawaiian shirt and sandals. NO! Never! But it's vacation and I'm ready to roll.

I was supposed to get up around 5:45 but I turned that to about 6:20. Once I was up I had breakfast and started to load the car. Slave barb on the other hand loaded the cooler and got that end of it ready. We ended up hitting the road at 7:30. Our ride in was great. No traffic, only one stop and pretty much a seventy mile an hour trip on cruise control the entire way.

We are ready for the North East Master slave conference.

Once we arrived we were greeted by slave paul. This is his first time doing service for me face to face.

So far it's been great. It's also been great having slave barb and slave paul by my side at an event.

We got registered nice and early, if only our room was ready with such a quickness. Once we got to our room we unpacked and then took care of some stuff and then it was back to the room.

Now that we the three of us are back in the room there's some serious business to take of. It was time to have a “Sunday Discussion” with slave paul. This was awesome because it was more of a HSL discussion since the three of us could be together. The discussion went great. I was extra thrilled about the discussion because after the discussion it was my hope to collar slave paul. Since our discussion went so great this made for an easy segue to the collaring portion. In the end I think my makeshift ceremony went well and I think slave paul was a bit surprised but very happy. It felt great to do it.

After the ceremony we headed downstairs to see Sir Nick and slave kathleen AKA piddles. Oh my heart beats strong when I see them. They rock! Later in the night I have a MTTA board meeting and then slave barb and slave paul will go to dinner with those guys. After tonight's meet and greet myself, slave barb, Sir Nick and slave kathleen are going to have some cigars and catch up a bit.

During the meet and greet slave barb and slave catherine put together a ceremony for slave lara. They gathered together some good friends and they had a public ceremony for slave lara. lara really deserves this and the ceremony went off better than I could have ever imagined. I'm honored to know and be friends with slave lara and I'm very proud of my own slave barb for coming up with this idea and making sure it got completed. She worked on this for a long time! Great work slave barb!