Only Kappa's Can Hoot!

"Anybody can tweet... But only Kappa's can HOOT!!" was one of the prime sayings of Kappa Kappa Gamma National Convention (or the #KkgConv as it was referred to on Twitter). I spent the past weekend at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, being completely kapparific!

The rooms were crazy huge. It had two king size beds, which I wish I could have brought home with me! SO comfy! and much bigger than the twin size bed I have here... My roommate Taunie, from Oregon State, and I both picked ends of the room to throw our stuff everywhere. With all of the outfit requirements at convention, there was a LOT of clothes in our suitcases!!

Ashley and I spent all day going to different meetings, learning all kinds of Kapparific information, and talking with our chapter advisers. However, we did skip out on the occasional meeting to hit up the fabulous pool to get some sun!! Who could blame us?! It was beautiful! Our layout time was perfectly planned due to the very obsessive and full schedule we were given. (They even alloted 15 minutes travel time in our schedule between activities! And trust me, you needed all 15 minutes of it! The Biltmore is HUGE!)

We had some very... interesting meals throughout the week. Imagine if the chefs on Top Chef were cooking your food every night for dinner... The food would be really tasty (unless they made mini-hamburgers, then it would be disgusting) but with the smallest portions you have ever seen! Ashley and I immediately realized we must have been put on the "Kappa Convention Diet."

The most exciting part of convention would have to be at the Awards Dinner! We weren't even paying attention (naturally!) and all of a sudden heard "Epsilon Eta, Auburn University"... We jumped up and had no idea what was going on or what to do next! We had won the 2008-2010 House Board Award for our beautiful new chapter room! So I ran on stage and claimed our awesome silver bowl. The second coolest thing about convention was at dinner on the last night, where all 1,000+ of us did our rituals. It was amazing to see how everyone in the room knew the same secret stuff!!

Hoot, Hoot, Hoot!
Sign me up for Convention 2012!!