Tour Ronto

The drive from New Hampshire to Toronto is 3 million miles and will take you 6 light years.

We didn't have a bad trip in the way of wrong turns and accidents but it was certainly long, especially at the border where everyone else happened to be. I think that we made good time, though I don't have a reference point, and I didn't mind driving because Kevin had uploaded a good mix of music onto his iPod and there were some good-looking scenes along I-90 through New York. The sunset was particularly pretty but unfortunately, by the time it was ready to go below the horizon, we could only see its glow over a concrete wall at the border.

The two of us went to the convention center this morning to scope out the scene and we met up with four other UNH students, somewhat serendipitously (though we knew they were around somewhere). We six checked out posters for a while, took advantage of the conference's daily free beer (yup) and went up the CN tower to get a view of ALL of Toronto. It is a tall building. I took pictures but I didn't bring my cable down to the lobby so I'll have to load them in the room and post them tomorrow.

Tomorrow is when the real science fun begins for us. There are some presentations we want to see in the morning, then we'll check out more posters during the day. I think I also ought to get my talking points in order for Tuesday so that I can respond informatively to those two people who ask about my poster.

I guess that's all I have in the way of an update at this point. We found out today that there is free wifi at the conference so I hope to be able to post some sort of update every day. See you then!