MOA Conference in Branson

This weekend I attended the Missouri Optometric Association in Branson, MO. It has been many, many years since I have been in Branson....the west side sure hasn't changed much. However, the East side has a new addition that is young and hip, full of new stores and lots of restaurants, it's called The Landing.
I was one of several students who served as a monitor for the conference, checking doctors in and out of the their continuing education classes so they can get their credit in order to keep their license. After the lectures have started and all the docs are checked in we get to sit in and listen too. It is amazing how much I have learned in just over two short years. I remember attending these same type lectures in my 1st and 2nd year and not having any idea what was going on. Now I am able to keep up with the lectures and really get a lot out of them.
Since this was the MISSOURI Optometric Association nearly everyone of the doctors there was from Missouri and most are Mizzou fans. Saturday night was the Presidents banquet which was also at the same time as the kick-off of the Mizzou vs. OSU game. This was a black tie dinner, very formal, except that the docs with access to the mic were all MU fans and made the crowd do cheers, and some had even brought in Mizzou signs. ANNOYING!!....Kind of like hell. That's too bad they got beat, a real shame. M-I-Z....Z-O-U SUCKS!!!! That's the cheer that they were doing at the dinner, I took the liberty of inserting the sucks part, and its really obnoxious.