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Well, I'm finally taking the time to post after getting back from San Francisco. This last week was a blast. I learned so many new things about Leopard and OS X technologies. I can't wait to continue learning Cocoa and developing applications. The new Xcode is very nice as are some of the features that are included in Leopard such as Spaces, Time Machine, and other features that weren't demoed at the keynote (honestly I can remember what I learned at the Keynote versus what I learn later at the conference. Colin and I met a guy from Canada who we hung out with most of the week. I forgot to bring my camera on the day we went to the Apple Campus, but Colin got some pictures of that. Since I can't talk much about the week at WWDC, I will continue with the weekend.

Colin got in line to check in for his flight while I went to pick-up Gaila on Friday. Because of the threats and the whole liquids stuff, Colin checked in early and Gaila got the the Des Moines airport way too early. Gaila and I took a nap when we got back to the hotel and went to see a late showing of Superman Returns IMAX 3D at the Metreon.

Saturday we started the day passing the, now empty, Moscone West (where the conference was) to go to the Academy of Science where they had some cool fish and pinguins. Aftwards we hopped on a bus to Golden Gate Park to visit the De Young museum, then headed over to the Golden Gate bridge. At the bridge we walked down to Fort Point and back up to catch the bus back to the hotel.

Sunday we picked up the cable car at Powell and Market and rode it to Fisherman's Warf passing the famous Lombard Street (the really curvy street). From there we took a bus to the Exploratorium then back to the Pier 39 for a boat trip under the Golden Gate bridge and around Alcatraz. We had dinner at a nice place on Pier 39 then went through the Aquarium of the Bay, Ghirardelli Square for some chocolate. We rode the cable cars back and stopped by Cold Stone for a treat before calling it a night.

Monday was a day in the air. Security wasn't as bad as you might think it would have been, there were so many reminders about what not to bring on carry-on since Firday that we knew the drill. Our flight out of O'Hare ended up getting delayed. We didn't leave Chicago until a little after midnight and getting home well after 2 AM. I took Tuesday off from work to recover.

Anyway, I took lots of pictures of the weekend that you can check out.