After a late night on Thurs thanks to leaving my packing way to late again, I was up early in the morning and off to the airport for my flight to San Fran. It seemed every second person on the flight was heading off to the ADA, and I even had a lady come up and ask me about about team type 1.
This was my first trip to San Fran, and my first impressions of it were that it is a pretty cool city. i had a walk down town and had a little look around, then decided San Fran has an awesome vibe to it. For those of you that don't know the city, here is a picture from above the Golden Gate bridge, courtesy of Alex.
Our first appointment of the weekend was a dinner/talk with Sanofi Aventis in regards to the regulations of the company and what expected during the weekend. We were also told all the people to contact if anything went wrong, but all I didn't worry to much about that, as if anything was too happen, I'd just ask Phil. Heading out to this first engagement, Nanny Nancy was telling me i was spot on. Flat lining at 98 mg/dl, or 5.4 mmol/l. Perfect. This, I felt, might be the last time all weekend, so I thought I better get a photo, as seen below.
Our next engagement was a dinner with OmniPod. Yes, a 2nd dinner, how good is that?
On Saturday morning we started work at the conference. I was originally scheduled to be with Dex4, but they didn't have a booth, so I was changed to hang out with Monique at the Abbott booth. Monique had the fun job of riding her bike on a trainer while her navigator was displayed on the overhead screen. My job was to stand or sit round and talk to people as they came in and asked about the navigator, how we used it, and what we liked about it. It was good fun, but by the afternoon I was ready to get out of there and go for a ride.
I went riding with Alex and Tim out towards the Golden Gate Bridge. We rode past the bay where the escape from Alcatraz triathlon was on the next day, and the atmosphere there was already building. We were even able to stop in and grab some free samples of shot blocks. We then went out onto the bridge, which was crowded with pedestrians and riders, and riding across was not very smooth at all. Upon getting to the other side we started riding up the hill, but then decided we didn't have enough time to go to the top and get back for dinner. We were suppose to meet at 6.30pm in the lobby (though at this point we thought it was 6.00) dressed and ready to go. It was already 5.25, so we thought we better start hitting. What followed was a crazy ride of dodging traffic, a lot of accelerating from stop sides, and almost killing ourselves avoiding pedestrians or traffic. Below is a photo of me and Tim on the Bridge, with Alcatraz in the background. Below that is a photo of me crawling up one of the really steep streets of San Fran.
Dinner that night was fun put on by our good friends at Abbott. Dinner was followed by a nice stroll back to the hotel for our last night in San Fran. Off to bed early as it was up early for another day at the Abbott booth the next day.
Sunday the conference seemed a lot quieter than it was on the Saturday. We did still talk to a lot of interested people, but also spend some time after my shift checking out some other booths and displays. That was quite interesting, especially the health checks, one of which said I need to see a doctor about my body weight!! I also got to spend a bit more time withe friends at the Sanofi Aventis and OmniPod booths.
At the end of the day we wandered back to the hotel and packed up to get to the airport. We were pretty pressed for time, but we did get there on time. I even had enough time to quickly say good bye to my new San Fran friends, which I think left some of my teammates with a bit surprise.
We have now arrived in Oceanside, and RAAM here we come!!!
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