Yes, we are in STL for the marketing conference.  The conference is being held at the Renaissance hotel in down town.  The only way I can say how much this hotel has disappointed me is to say that the only time I remember staying someplace worse for a conference is the year we had the Ramada conference in FL and nearly froze to death!  This is the same way. 

It is an old 2 pipe system that had us just freezing in the sessions yesterday.  Since I have a nasty cold coming on it really made for a nasty day!  At noon Greg and I came back to the room and got our sweaters, now, I was already wearing a sweater but put another one over the top.  Still sat in the sessions and shook.  Not fun.

Then, to describe this room as nice would be an exaggeration.  It’s not awful, but it is certainly small.  They charge $12.95 a day for internet (how outdated is that mindset in a hotel) and the food is so expensive here that we leave to eat.

That has lead us to a couple of interesting places,  Across the street is a deli which turned out to be a treat, great sandwiches in a quaint environment, reasonable prices and it just plain smells good.  Then last night we went to a neighborhood bar and had pizza.  That was kind of fun too.

Anyway, hope we learn a lot at this conference, it is expensive and cold so gotta go some!