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Today is the first day of CFUNITED 2008. I will be posting small blog reviews of some of the classes I will be attending. This post is just a recap of the trip from Houston to DC and how I spent Tuesday.

I am a new father, my daughter Sara is only 6 months old, and this is my first trip out of town without my family. It was harder than I thought it would be to say good bye at the airport.
We setup Skype so we get to do video chats at night so we can all see and hear each other. That helps.
Anyway, back on topic. The flight was ok. There was a bit of turbulence, but other than that, everything went smoothly. I am a sucker for movies that are normally considered “for kids”, and the flight was showing The Spiderwick Chronicles, so of course I had to watch it. From the previews, it was one that I probably wouldn’t have gone out of my way to rent, but it turned out to be OK and was a good way to pass the time on the 3 hour flight.

Seth Bienek (Manager of the HOUCFUG) and I decided to save a bit of cash and share a Hotel for the trip. Seth saved us a lot of money by finding a great little apartment a couple blocks from the conference for half of what we were going to pay at the conference hotel. Woot! It turned out really well so far; we are actually closer to the conference than the designated conference hotel!

After arriving and getting settled in yesterday, we spent most of the day walking around downtown. The weather was perfect, and it is a great town for sight-seeing. We couldn’t decide on where to eat lunch, so we ended up in a small little place. I forget the name, but the food was okay. For supper, we found Elephant & Castle pub and restaurant. The fish and chips was pretty good, as was my girly drink. I know, I know… I went to a pub and had a mixed drink instead of a pint, what was I thinking? lol.

We also went to MiniMAX last night, but I wrote about that in a separate post.

Ok, time to leave to get breakfast and head out to the conference.