We were up on time and had a nice breakfast. We are both looking very forward to this day. Today is the day we attend slave rick's presentation called the 12 Steps to Freedom. In this case the freedom which is being addressed is the freeing yourself to achieve your higher path and to be one with the universe. To tell you the truth I'm not sure if I'm phrasing that correctly but this is a long class.

We got to our destination at 11:00 and it was wonderful to hang with so many friends. It was also great to hang with everyone because we were “off duty”. We had no speeched to make, no presentations to give. We were simply audience members looking for education.

The presentation was amazing. It was filled with sound thoughts, laughter and good times. I learned a lot. Specifically I learned two things. When looking at my spiritual path, I have a long way to go. This doesn't make me feel bad or lesser than because I think most of us have a long way to go. That's not to say that we as a whole are “bad” it's simply a testimony that to get spiritual enlightenment there's a lot of hard work and as barb has said in the past in presentation ( quoting Maya Angelo) nothing will work unless you do.

The second thing that I learned is is the easier part. It's the part that will allow me to work hard and deal with the struggles of the first thing I learned. And that is that I'm on a good track. It may not be the exact perfect track, but spiritually I'm on a good path. That's a pretty cool thought.

After the five hour presentation ( with three breaks) everyone hung out and again had a a wonderful time. Certainly one of the highlights of the event was thirty or so of us going out to dinner together.

That was loud and fun! No doubt! The restaurant was happy to see us leave. I think we kept them open far later than they normally we have. Oh well, they certainly made their money on us and that's a good thing too.

After that we headed home. In my mind I thought myself and barb would have some alone time, talk, chill, cuddle, whatever. Instead we settled into bed after a long an wonderful day and fell asleep.

The other big news of the day is that Obama picked his running mate. Joe Biden. I'm pretty happy with the choice. I would have loved to have had the dream ticket of Obama and Clinton but as good as that would look on paper it would have been a hard sell since they battled so hard and there was a lot of hitting below the belt during their epic primary. Would people really believe that ticket would work cohesively? Probably not.

Of course Sunday morning Sunday morning news shows like Meet The Press will be all over this and I'll be watching big time.

Monday starts the DNC convention and once again I'll be watching big time.