Sunday, October 25, 2009

Minneapolis

Last night I got back from a conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I thoroughly enjoyed the conference, learned a lot and met a bunch of great people. Instead of going to the business meeting, I took off to see the Mall of America, across the road from the hotel where the conference was held:



It's pretty insane, with an indoors amusement park:



The hotel itself was pretty flash, here's a picture of my room:



On a completely unrelated topic, a cute treefrog was visiting us the other week, to my entertainment:




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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Portland the second

In other travelling news, Mort & I went to Eugene last week to have Mort's wisdom teeth out. The surgery went well and he has been recovering quickly, although somewhat tired of mashed potatoes.
More pictures from our Portland trip:

I can't really explain what these trucks are doing....


The statue, Portlandia (not actually crouching in a tree):


The world's smallest city part, Mill Ends Park is 60cm in diameter, between the two posts:


Mr. Whippy is a bit more hard-core here:

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