Keeping Busy - Del in California

Basically, we've been busy.

And by we, I meant me. Though Darin was busy in his own way as well.

I had my first (and probably only) work trip to California two weeks ago. Was super excited because I got to learn a new piece of equipment (though we've had it for about 8 months, but alas) and be the 'expert' in my company. It made me feel appreciated in many ways - great feeling.

Headed out to Sacramento, CA on Monday after a nice normal flight from Denver. Got to the hotel and was floored by how nice it was!

I didn't really know what to do with myself.

But I noticed one of my all time favorite restaurants Chevy's was super close to the hotel so I ended up walking there for dinner. (Chevy's was (and still is I presume) a restaurant near the giant mall outside of Chicago that I would make people go to whenever we went shopping because they make their own tortillas).

*sigh*

After dinner, I went to the hotel and crashed.

My Mini-Vacation

Wow! A couch too. And I had two queens too.

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The next week was super crazy hectic. I had to get up early (to get the free breakfast - waffles - and watch the World Cup game that was on that particular morning), get in a limo/town car, and drive to the place where I was taking my training - Auburn, CA. And then learn/work all day. Go back and exercise. And sleep. And repeat.

On Thursday (the last full day), we went to downtown Auburn and took a walking tour of the city. It was pretty fantastic!

The Courthouse

A Plaque.

Swallow nests.
Pretty awesome actually.

The Group at dinner:
Rodger, Rebecca, Me, Frank, and Keith

My dinner. There was foam. Foam.

Beets. Gorgeous (though I didn't eat it).

And there was wine. Oh, was their wine.

Friday afternoon, I decided that instead of flying back to Orlando, I'd head up (only like 2 hours by plane) to Seattle to see my family.

What a great idea! Dru and Lauren picked me up from the airport at 9:20 pm and the adventure began.