Day 6: Homeward Bound, Sort of

This day I was finally on my way home. I didn't think that it would be that hard without Eric but it was a lot harder than I thought. Hopefully we won't have to do that in a while.

This is one last view from my hotel room. It's as close to panoramic that I could get. I don't know if the camera had the feature. Probably not. But anyways here it is.
This is just a pretty sweet picture when I was flying home when we were above the clouds.
This is when we were coming into Utah. It was cool because the snow was only on one side.

Day 5: The Aquarium

Today some of us decided to go to the aquarium in Tampa. It was a pretty cool place. This is the front of the aquarium.

When we first walked in there was this tank that had sting rays in there that we could pet. At the top of the picture you can kind of tell, but there was this huge ray.
These are just some pictures from the aquarium: A cool turtle swimming around
There was this duck that had a blue beak and I tried to take a picture but every time it would look like it was glowing so it looks kind of funny.
A cute little owl that I thought was fake at first because it didn't move.
Some cool birds.
These were some fish that you could see through.
You could see through the floor in some parts.
This is Tomo sitting with the mermaid. Kind of funny.
A shark and ray.
I tried to get a picture of the cool little seahorse but it was always moving so fast so it's kind of blurry.
I don't remember what kind of fish this was, but it was huge and ugly and can get up to 800 pounds!
They also had this tank where you could touch the starfish. The water was freezing!
So there were these rocking chairs set-up throughout the aquarium and as I was walking through the aquarium I saw this older couple sitting in the chairs looking in a fish tank (second picture). It was kind of funny. I pretended to take a picture of this big fish that was hanging up right above them and took one of them too.
Just some cool fern plant things.
I really like this fish. It was a really bright fish and the camera doesn't do it justice. I call it my Lakers fish for obvious reasons.
This is just a cool little yellow seahorse.
So there was this separate tank for these special seahorses because they were pregnant. The cool thing about them was was that they were guys and they were the pregnant ones. Oh how would that be.
This was a cool seahorse thing. It was called a dragon fish or something like that. I wanted to take a better picture but we couldn't use our flashes because it would scare them.
So at a couple of places there was this smoke curtain that had cartoons playing on them. It was pretty cool.
Later that night we went to Outback Steakhouse and ended up being the first Outback. Sweet! This is the yummy desert I had there.

Day 4

Today was actually the first day that I went to classes. In the convention center they had a lot of different exhibits. As I was walking around the different booths, I saw a sign that said Carl Lewis was going to be there later in the day. So I went to a class and then got in this long line and finally got to "meet" Carl Lewis and get his autograph. Sweet!

After meeting him I walked around a little more, got some free stuff, and looked at more exhibits. As I was walking around there was this one exhibit that is pretty much Dance Dance Revolution, except it's on these hard plastic pads and I saw two of my classmates dancing. It was kind of funny watching them. They're the two on the left.
One of the girls, Bri, was asked to dress up as a mouse for one of the booths and walk around. It was pretty funny/cute. The first picture is of Dr. Appleby, Bri, and me and the second one is of Bri and Chase, her escort, because she couldn't see out of the head very well.

Later in the afternoon I went to this one class where there were these high school kids from somewhere in Florida who are on a step team and they were pretty good.

Later that night we finally decide to try and get together and take a picture of our group out on our balcony.

Day 3

Today I didn't really feel like going to any classes and everyone else went to a Yankees game. I didn't want to go to that either because it was too expensive so instead, I went to Clearwater beach with an old friend who lives in Tampa. I hadn't been to a real beach in a long time so it was a lot of fun. I felt like a little kid playing in the water .

This some pictures driving across the Tampa Bay, which has an average depth of 10 feet. Who'd of thunk it. Not me.

This is a picture of the beautiful beach.

This is of me and Becca ( the one who took me too the beach, Thanks!) and her cute little girl, Eve. I had so much fun catching up with her and meeting her cute little girl. Thanks again for carting me to the beach!

Later that night after dinner, we decided to walk around Tampa and see what was there. There was this one spot that had a lot of little cool shops. Outside in this little plaza thing there was this guy that was making spraypaint pictures. They were pretty sweet. I almost got one but they were really expensive.

Second Day 2

Today I didn't do too much. I just checked into the conference. There weren't that many good classes that I wanted to go to that day so I hung out at the hotel for a bit by myself while everyone else went out and ate and walked around. Later that night we went to this sports bar for dinner. It was pretty good. This is a picture of the group of people that went.
While we were at the restaurant we met these guys from New York, they were a little buzzed, but they showed us this dance they learned at last year's conference. This is a little video from it, it was pretty cool.

After dinner me and a girl decided to go back a little earlyish to the hotel and on the way back we saw these weird looking ducks, so I decided to take a picture. They kind of looked like turkeys.

Another Day 1: Flying to Tampa

So last Monday I went to Tampa, Florida for an AAHPERD conference, which is basically a PE conference. Today was pretty much a traveling day. I started out in Salt Lake, then went to St. Louis, and then on to Tampa. The flights actually weren't too bad. I was excited to fly since I hadn't been on plane for about 8ish years.

This first picture is somewhere between Salt Lake and St. Louis. I just think it's pretty sweet.

This one is flying in to St Louis. If you click on the picture to make it bigger, and look in the center under the river you can see the St Louis Arch. I thought it was pretty cool. The Mississippi River is huge!! I never realized it was so big until I saw it.

I think this picture is in between St. Louis and Tampa. I just thought it looked cool, kind of like a patchwork quilt.

This one is coming into Florida.

This is some of the girls that went. We saw some random bronze guy sitting on a bench on our way home from dinner and decided to sit and chat/pose.

After dinner us girls decided to go walk around and find a store so we could buy some breakfast food for the rest of the week. There was a river in the middle of downtown Tampa with a lot of bridges. This picture is kind of blurry, but it's still a cool picture of downtown.

This is the sweet view from my hotel room, on the river, overlooking the pool. Pretty sweet.