This is an awesome spring break already. Not that it can beat last years... I mean seriously,
the cruise was awesome! But this year, Dan and I got to have spring break together! We started it off at SWE conference. We had the fun privilege of riding "le bus" for 14ish hours to BEAUTIFUL PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA!!!! Oh it was amazing! (Well the bus ride wasn't...) But I love SWE conference. It is one of the things I look forward to every year! There are awesome people there and you get to learn such cool things and honestly, I just love the fact that I am surrounded by hundreds of other women in engineering! What made this year even better was I got to share that with other people. Dan came, and one of our friends Evan came. (Yes they are both guys, and yes they knew it was a women in engineering conference.)
Thursday we got on the bus at 5:00 am! But when we finally got to Palm Springs, we went to dinner at this awesome 50's diner!
On Friday, we started the day out with a hike at the Coachella Valley Preserve. It was really cool and quite beautiful! We were right on the San Andreas Fault the whole time! How cool is that?
Saturday was the conference it was FANTASTIC!!! Oh my goodness, the breakfast keynote speaker was amazing! The lunch was really good as well, it was all about changing the way people (mainly kids) think about engineers and help paving the way for a future in engineering. And the dinner keynote was from one of the first members of SWE, Pat Brown. She joined SWE in 1951, SWE started in 1950. And not only that, she was a past president of SWE, in our own region!!!! It was soo cool! I even won a lava lamp from annual conference lava lounge! :-) It is currently going in our living room.
Anyways I'm pretty sure Dan had a fun time. I know I did! And hopefully I'll get to go to many more conferences! (Especially region next year, its in HAWAII!!!!) When I get some pictures from conference, I'll be sure to add them on. Until then, stay tuned for our awesome vegas trip this weekend!
