Great trip to Canada and Boston, plus a pic of some Jessicurl curlies I met!

Great trip to Canada and Boston, plus a pic of some Jessicurl curlies I met!
I've been gone for the past 2 weeks and am really glad to be home. (though I had a GREAT trip, as you'll see in a sec.) But being away from home for 2 weeks really makes me appreciate how wonderful Humboldt County is!(even though, really, there are worse places to visit than Northern Ontario and Boston in the fall! :) )

I spent a week in Canada with my dad, and that was great. We visited a bunch of old family friends and had a great time overall. Here's a cute pic of me and dad at his house:



After being in Canada for a week I flew from Toronto to Boston where I spent another full week. I was in Boston to attend Natural Products Expo East, a trade show aimed at the natural products industry. I didn't present at it, rather, I attended as a means of learning about the whole experience of presenting at a trade show so that in the next 6-8 months I can go to one and actually have a booth. I feel like I learned a lot about how it all works and am eager to find a trade show I can actually present at next time.

I went to college in Boston, so I have lots of friends there I haven't seen in 12 years. I stayed with my friend Heather and had a great time spending time with her and her ADORABLE little son Harry. He's 3 and right now he's ALL ABOUT Scooby Doo. :) One day I was wearing a dark blue wrap-style shirt that had purple trim, along with a skirt and brown boots. That is when he started calling me "Daph" after Daphne in Scooby Doo. :) I guess he decided I looked like her. :) (I'm sure the red hair didn't hurt either...) So all day it was, "Do you like this song Daph?" and "Are you ready for lunch Daph?" It was SO CUTE! Here's some pics of me and Harry, with me in my "Daphne" outfit. :)



His mom wanted one of me holding up the Daphne action figure. :)



One night when I was in Boston several of my Jessicurl customers came out and had some drinks with me and my friend Anna. I've known Anna since I was 6 and she lives in Boston,
so while she doesn't have curly hair, we thought it was only fitting that she come out for drinks too! :) We had a GREAT time. One lovely lady took the train all the way up from Providence, RI and another drove up from Cape Cod!!! Those are not short trips! So I was totally stoked to meet these 4 lovely curlies and was very flattered that they came from so far! We had a great time; they were all super nice and we had a lot of laughs. Here's a pic from the curly gathering:




I don't have any pics from the trade show, but I don't imagine you'd be TOO interested in that anyway. :) On Saturday night my old college friends and I all went out for a few drinks and had a GREAT time. I hadn't seen these folks in 12 years so it was SO great to re-connect and find out about their current lives, jobs, families, kids, etc. Here are a few pics from that night:

Here's me with my good friends Maria and Heather:



Here's one with just me and Maria. Jeez I sure do laugh a lot, even in pictures.



Here's a great one of my gals Rene, Heather and Maria.


OH!!!!! That totally reminds me of a great story! I was at the trade show and this woman was working a booth that featured herbal supplements. She had great curls. BUT, before I could tell her that, she said to me, "You have great curls, what products do you use?" Before I could even answer her, she said, "Have you ever heard of Jessicurl?" I said, "Yes, actually, that's what I use every day." I had every intention of telling her I AM Jessicurl, but before I could even do that she said, "Oh good, I wanted to make sure you knew about it because it's the best stuff I've found yet." So that's when I said, "Well, actually, that's my business...I make that stuff...I am Jessicurl..."

She buys my stuff from NaturallyCurly.com so she hadn't been to my site and didn't know what I looked like I guess. :) I thought that was SO AWESOME!! This random curly in Boston selling me on my own stuff!!! :) That was for sure the highlight of my trade show experience! :)

So all in all I had a GREAT time away, but I'm really really ready to be home now and keep selling that Jessicurl stuff! :)! (2 weeks is a LONG time to be gone! )

Thank goodness for my awesome staff who keeps things under control when I'm gone. So in that vein, I'd like to shout out to Dave, Matt, Steve, Doug, Drew and "the other Matt" for being such awesome employees!!! Really y'all, these dudes rock! :) I'm really lucky to have such great guys working for me. :)