We arrived in Honolulu on Tuesday afternoon and managed to get a couple of hours on the beach and a dip in the south pacific before dinner and an early night.
We started today with a hearty breakfast at Wailea Coffee House that offered eggs and toast and coffee. Then I attended an interesting keynote on astronomy. I learned that Hawaii hosts the biggest telescopes in the world and is the best place on earth for astronomy because there is less interference in the atmosphere than elsewhere. There are just so many advantages of living in Hawaii, as I'm sure the Professor giving the talk figured out :)
I attended some conference talks after that, and spent an hour by the beach going through the slides for my presentation. Laptops are a great invention!
After lunch it was time for my session. I endured some presentations that were less than expected and some really interesting ones, I was the last person to present, so at 5pm it was finally time. I think I did ok. I got a question and some interest after the talk, got to demo my tool :) Yeay, I'm a big geek!
After dinner, by the beach, Ramzi and went for a sunset walk. As we're staring into the gorgeous play of colors left on the sky as the sun is vanishing beyond the horizon, we see two whales jumping out of the water and making huge splashes. They continued playing around for about 10 minutes, it was amazing to see.
The plan for tomorrow is to attend the software engineering track. Take a break for a phone conference with a company for a possible summer internship, and then soak up some sun in the afternoon. I also plan to eat about 10 pineapples, they're so delicious here. Sounds like a good plan huh?!
Now I'm off for some cards and beer with the bf on the balcony.
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