Thursday, October 9, 2008

My trip to Sunnyvale

The first week of September, I attended a quarterly meeting at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, Cali., for the program I am a part of at work. It was quite the experience flying all the way across the country, and marked only the second time in my life I'd been in California. I didn't do much at all during the two days of meetings but I was able to make up for it by seeing family who live in the Bay area!

My bed at the hotel--it's nice traveling for business as I get put up in business suites. This particular room had a living space and a bedroom with a flat-screen TV in each space.

The living space, more or less, with the couch not able to be seen off to the left.

I live life dangerously so I took some photos while driving to my cousin's house. I really wanted a shot of the mountains out there and this was one of the best views of them I got.

And there's cousin Margo and Steve's house!

Here's their littlest guy, Simon.

This expression of his cracked me up.

My cousin and her husband have three boys, and after watching them live life for an evening, I couldn't help but think that it was a glimpse at my family in its early days. This was the oldest, Zach, playing with my uncle Bill.

The whole family.

My uncle Bill and aunt Betty.

I had a direct flight to San Jose, but on the way back I had to stop over in Salt Lake City. Flying into SLC, it was absolutely gorgeous with the Rockies and the Great Salt Lake rolling by underneath. Unfortunately, I had an aisle seat so I couldn't take any photos from the plane, but I did get some once we were on the ground.


While it certainly wasn't a thrilling business trip, I had a lot of fun seeing that area of the country--not to mention family. Here's looking to next year's trip!

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