Well today was the first day of the conference and I went to a number of sessions on asp.net and the new features that are available in VS 2008. Learned some new things on the different controls that you can use and so on, found a really cool control suite from Telerek called RadControls, so I am hoping I can convince the powers that be at my work place to use it for the our site redesign.

I went out for a little bit tonight and took some pictures of the hotel from the outside, and I know I have said this before, so no reason why this shouldn't be any different. I will try to get some pictures up on the site soon. :)

Some other news, found out today that good friends of ours are expecting their first, so congrats to Cory and Jamie. Also at the conference I met up two former work collegaues from CMI, which was the first company I ever worked for in Grand Rapids in 1999, their names were Mike Gerhard and Jeff Orr. Was great to see familiar faces at a conference, where the only faces I have seen before, are from their websites. :)

Got to talk to Jenny and Breanna tonight, really missed them while I am down here, I think they would love to be here. I know for sure that Bre would love the pool that is outside, may be one of these days we will come here and they can enjoy the area and may be go to that beach that she keeps going on about when I am talking to her on the phone.

Well tomorrow is another day, and I need to get some sleep, until I write again. :)