North Shore Weekend

A few weeks ago Kyleen and I took a couple days off of work and headed north.  We headed up to Two Harbors.  We had nothing planned and that was great.  On the way up we stopped at Canal Brewing in Duluth, sampled some beer and had a couple of appetizers.  They have a big selection of beer and it a nice place right in Canal Park.  We both liked the Brown Ale that they had on tap.

After wondering around the Canal Park area for a bit we headed up to Two Harbors, we stayed at Larsmont Cottages.  This place was great.  We always mentioned staying here, but it never seemed to work out.  We had the upstairs of one of the units.  It was a very relaxing stay.  We had breakfast at the restaurant and it was great, so great we headed back for dinner.

Our room was on the upper left.

The view from the room was great!

Friday morning we headed up to Gooseberry Falls.  I have been there many times, but not in the spring.  The water was really flowing.

San Diego Work Trip

So, it has been a while since I posted so it's time to play catch up.

January 26^th-30^th I was in San Diego for Solidworks World 2014.  Solidworks is the CAD software that I use at work.  The convention is large, about 6,000 people from all over the world show up.  Most of the convention is training sessions that last all day.  The weather was great and it was a nice break from the cold Minnesota winter that we have been having. 

I did get to see a few cool things while out at the show.

I think that I need this as a new tow vehicle. 

I'm not sure what the point of this was, but it was kind of cool.  Someone would sit in the middle of it and the machine would walk like a spider.

They had the USA bobsled, Night Train 2 on display and they spoke about the design of it. 

We also played hooky one afternoon and headed over to the USS Midway to take in a tour. If you are ever in San Diego, make the time to spend an afternoon on the ship.  There is a lot of cool things to see and you can just wonder and take it all in.  The cool part is that most of the "tour guides" were on the ship at some point in their career.

The sunset was great!