Was down in San Diego yesterday at a reading conference.  The speaker was a professor from Kent State in Ohio; Tim Rasinski.  Very laid back and he loved to sing.  His perspective on reading fluency is not speed, but word recognition and then text comprehension.  He does a summer reading program and has shown how the use of poetry, songs, and readers theater and greatly increased the students ability to learn and read better.  Here is a pic of the hotel area - Town and Country in Hotel Circle.  

I thought this fountain was really pretty.  It was outside our conference room.  

After a long ride home; I went to pick up Lil E and he was busy making the letter "O" out of buttons.  Really cute.