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EX3 Nashville (pic enclosed)

SarahP
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Home from Nashville, and back at work. I’m wearing my amazing new cowboy boots thanks to Stacie – she taught me all about boots (who knew there was so much to know?) and helped me buy them Saturday after our group dinner.  


Just like our previous two EX trips, the weekend with my quit family was amazing! New members and old, it doesn’t matter. We’re all family and being together in person, after all we go through together on this site, is one of the best Quit Maintenance tools I know.


And like Tommy says – you were all there with us! We talked about our quits, we talked about the site, we talked about all the other members we know and love. We got to Skype with Dale on Saturday morning and briefly with Cindy on Saturday afternoon.


Our dinner in downtown Nashville was a hoot – we sang, we danced, we laughed!  Oh yeah, and we ate somewhere in there too!


A group of us were walking around after dinner and wanted to get a drink, but the bars were extremely crowded. So we popped in to a little place on a side street that looked less busy. We found a big table, sat, ordered, and then realized it was a hookah bar. Sounds like the start of a bad joke – “8 ex-smokers walk into a hookah bar…” We’re lucky we didn’t get kicked out, we were laughing pretty hard at the very concept, the crazy “flavors” on the menu, and how silly the patrons looked.


Thanks to everyone who made the trip, and everyone here who supported us and hosted the site activities all weekend! Special thanks to Sky and Strudel for organizing Saturday’s breakfast, and again to Sky for organizing the “Caravan” to get some amazing ladies there and home again safely!


We’re collecting everyone’s pictures now, and will be putting together the photo album to share with everyone here as soon as possible. We also have video of Giulia singing a song she wrote to celebrate all of our quits.


For now, here’s a group pic from Saturday’s breakfast, stolen off Rick’s Facebook page. We weren’t able to get a complete group pic this year; this has everyone except Jackie (Ms J), Storm, and Jim (freeneasy).

 

We’re going back to Vegas next year, so start saving!  We’ll open the EX4 group for discussions later this year. 

 

Welcome home everyone! 

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