NACA 2013 Part 1

Crossing the Border

View of the convention center from my hotel room

It was an early April morning (if you consider 9:30 early) on a Wednesday when we gathered at the Beaver Dam campus with our luggage and headed across the Wisconsin border.

NACA stands for the National Association for Campus Activities. I went on a five-day trip with Student Senate members from all three Moraine Park campuses to the 2013 NACA Northern Plains Regional Conference in Minnesota. The purpose of the conference is to view entertainment acts, check out activities, and participate in educational sessions. College students who attend bring back to their college information such as acts they’d like to book for future campus events and share tips they learn in the educational sessions.

Sam and me at dinner on Wednesday night

Wednesday was a travel day since it takes a few hours to get to St. Paul. We stopped in Tomah for lunch on the way, and by the afternoon, we were at our hotel across the street from the convention center.

The conference didn’t start until the following day, so after dinner at a restaurant across the street, the rest of the night was free to do whatever we wanted to do such as working on homework or going for a walk. A few of us spent time in the pool and hot tub since it was probably going to be our only chance to do so. Once the conference started, it was supposed to be non-stop, from 9 in the morning until midnight (or later). And it was.