ASABE Conference

I got back last night (or maybe this morning?) from the ASABE International Conference in Portland, OR. It was overall a good time, but I was exhausted!

I got there Sunday afternoon and took the train to our hotel where and I met up with everyone, well, everyone that was staying in the Days Inn. We went to Nordstroms cafe to get some food and wandered around downtown, took a nap and then went to dinner at Rock Bottom. By this time I was pretty much in a state of exhausted delerium, but it was still fun :)

Monday we got up and went to the first day of the conference. The sessions were all pretty interesting. There were so many to choose from that you could just switch to something different if you got bored. That night we went to Henry’s for dinner. It was very dark ;) but yummy. I had leftovers that I ended up giving away to a homeless guy, which there are apparently lots of in Portland.

Tuesday morning we went to more presentations and then my poster presentation session was that afternoon. It happened to be in the same room as the renewable energy panel discussion so that made the fact that hardly anyone came to my poster less boring :) I got to reconnect with some Davis people so that was cool too. That night we went to Pizza Shmizza for dinner, then to the book store, then to an Irish pub (where I left my wallet causing a momentary panick, but the wonderful Justin Spangler picked it up so it was all good) and then to the American Cowgirl bar which turned out to be way more fun than I expected.

Wednesday morning I kinda dozed through some final presentations and a dreadfully long awards ceremony. Then Paige and I decided it was time to go shopping :) We wandered around for a while looking for the REI and eventually found after asking several people ;) Then we went to the mall for some dinner and more shopping- I got some shirts, tanks and a jean jacket! All on sale of course. I switched hotels because everyone else at mine was already gone and stayed with Paige at the way-nicer-than-the-DaysInn-they-give-you-free-cookies-Double Tree Inn! Jackie had been going on and on about the cookies at the Double Tree and I dare say that she is right, they are heavenly.

I got up and took some pictures around town and headed to the airport. The flight home was uneventful minus some heavy turbulence.

Overall, a good trip :) I learned stuff, met lots of cool new people and got to hang out with the cool people I already know :) There are pictures on my flickr site if you are interested.