My fifth day at the most incredible experience I've ever had. This has been a total dream. Hundreds and hundreds of girls and guys...being themselves without fear. I never imagined anything like this.

The Top Shelf Girls, Holly, Ariel, Jacqui (Grover), and I seem to have made our mark on the con. Blake Alford, one of the organizers, said he loved the matching shirts and the idea behind them, and many people commented favorably on our shirts as we walked around the Hotel. Everyone...EVERYONE, from the Hotel staff, to the townspeople, and everyone in between, has been wonderful to all of us. The seminars have been very well attended and received, and the venders have bent over backward to make certain that what you buy is really what you want. If ANYONE hasn't been to one of these conventions, I cannot urge you strongly enough, to attend at least one, preferably SCC.

This is truly the experience of a lifetime. I will carry the memories of this place, this event, the people, in my heart for all of my life. I know I will have tears in my eyes when we leave Sunday, but they will be equally tears of sadness at leaving, and tears of joy, from the amazing experiences I had here, and the people I've met here.

As a first timer, I have felt, from day one, that I was welcome, respected, and cared about.

Thanks for tuning in...This is your roving, live reporter, Cathy, signing off from SOUTHERN COMFORT 2009.

Hugs 'n love,
Catherine Linda Michel