Aubry visited for a few weeks, spending her days visiting the many attractions in the Seattle area including the air museum, aquarium, science center, zoo, and probably half a dozen others I can't recall.
In the meantime Pieter managed to organize a crack team an throw together a POPL paper in only 3 weeks (be impressed). As for my work, it looks like I'm on track for an ICSE submission on August 20th.
The weekend before last Aubry and I drove up to Everett to check out the Boeing plant which features the world's largest building by volume (they say they could fit all of Disney land plus parking inside it). We got a chance to see assembly of a number of aircraft including 747s, 777s, and the new 787 Dreamliner. Unfortunately they don't allow pictures (lest we be spies for Airbus) so you'll have to take our word for the awesomeness of it. After Boeing we spend the rest of the day in vancouver, taking in the scenery.
This past weekend, A/V and I drove to the Olympic peninsula and saw much of Olympic National Park. We enjoyed the foggy black-sand beaches but were particularly impressed by the rainforest areas ... best characterized by enormously tall trees, lush ferns, and cold mountain streams full of energetic fish.
Here are some of my favorite pictures:
Am I to understand that you two were wearing matching purple pastel shirts?
ReplyDeleteI was going to say the same thing! And then, I just knew..
ReplyDeleteYes, we were wearing matching shirts. At least they weren't the same style, though I think Ray could pull of ruffles quite well. Also we were both wearing grey pants :-P
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