Day 3 is the first full day of conference and the first real test of my liver. It currently midday and I have still not recovered from yesterday. It’s fair to say I am questioning my life choices right about now. I am very pleased that I brought antacids and enzyme replacements.

My Day 4 post which will cover today is expected to be pretty brief!

Ok so Day 3 started with a conference breakfast loaded with bacon, we then all filed into a massive event space where over 3000 of us sat for some very American style presentations.

My first full day in DC! I woke up really early. I waited for daylight as walking around DC in the dark is considered… stupid. It was lightly spitting so figured it was a good time for a walk.

Ok so the day started with a pretty jarring alarm. While it was set for a respectable 8.00am local time that was still 1am? For my body clock. Today is all about getting to DC from Houston.

I am currently enroute from Houston to Baltimore enjoying the inflight wifi. A short recap of the rest of Day 0 the longest day.

AKL – LA onboard ZN4. I was was fortunate to be in BP with a bed as this was an overnight flight leaving around 11pm local time arriving into LA around 4pm local time.

So today was a bit of rough one for me. Not only is it the start of a trip and all the planning and stress that goes with it, today also marks the 1 year anniversary of my Mums death.

I started the day off with a walk to Mums favorite spot to lay some flowers and mark the time of her death. 07:52.