Wednesday, July 06, 2005 Woo, Philly is freakin' sweet. I came in early and got to see quite possibly the sweetest fireworks display known to man. I also happened to take the longest walk known to man. Fireworks were about 2-3 miles from the hotel. Actually, let me back up. I got into Philly and met 2 other guys within minutes of getting off the plane. That made things easy, although we ended up waiting for the stupid hotel shuttle for an hour before we gave up and took a taxi. The taxi ended up costing $1 more than the shuttle would have. Oops. Anyway, got in got my stuff put away and we went to this awesome little Belgian bar that had a list of a little over 400 beers. It was sweet. Finally made it to bed waay after I should have and ended up sleeping until 11 (registration started at 1). It worked out fine though. I'm up early today (4am by West Coast time!)

Training is pretty boring so far, but I expect it will pick-up a little today (I hope). The people I've met are awesome though. It's so cool to have no worries at all about walking up to someone and sharing whatever is on your mind regardless of the fact that you don't know them at all. It seems like most of us are pretty like-minded. I mean, last night I went to dinner with 6 perfect strangers but I had as much fun as dinner with 6 friends I'd know for years. It's really bizzare, but bizzare in a good way. Spending two years with these shouldn't be too bad at all.

Not enough pictures or time to really make a full gallery update yet, but I'll try and get up early tomorrow and put some up.