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Retreat Pics

Here's some pics of the Leavenworth retreat. I might write up a more detailed description later if I fail to get a Wii tonight

There was a lot of snow on the bus ride up

The lodge

Unpacking

You got a cot if you failed in the scramble for beds

The power went off for the first night, which was lots of fun, especially when we discovered that the toilets and showers were on a water pump, which was also off

No Fishin'

Rope traversal across a "chasm" of wet horse poo

Getting lost on the compass & map activity (I'm in the back)

Class activities

On the bus ride back we learned a bit of Mandarin Chinese. When we learned numbers there was an argument about whether we should learn 1-10 or 0-9. Can you tell we are programmers?

Silicon Valley drive-by shootings

Intel

Sun Microsystems

nVIDIA

Apple

Google (Building 3.1415926...)

HP

IBM

I also saw Yahoo! and Adobe, but I didn't get my camera out in time.

Redwood pictures

Diablo elevator

I wasn't sure what to make of this elevator sign in my hotel today:

Going down?

Northern California

Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Vineyards everywhere

Flowers by the side of the road

Vacation

This week I'm on vacation in California.  Here's a picture of me at the Golden Gate Bridge: