Raleigh, NC

After attending training in Colorado, I headed to Raleigh, North Carolina for another training course. Below are some photographs of my home-away-from-home (Embassy Suites Raleigh - Crabtree) and some photographs of the training center. Our training took place at the Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) at NC State University.

View from my hotel window.

The pool was way too cold to use.

Bioreactors on the lower level.

CIP skid.

Bioreactors on the upper level.

Denver, CO - Downtown Aquarium

The Downtown Aquarium was amazing! Being a weeknight, Marion and I almost had the entire place to ourselves. We took a ton of photographs and even had dinner at the restaurant where the seating is around a 150,000 gallon tank. I whittled down my photographs to the ones below:

The restaurant.

Fish near our table.

The tank at the restaurant.

Yum - crème brûlée!

Marion's key lime pie.

Ready for sharks.

Crazy fast otter...

He was too fast for my camera.

Nurse shark.

Tiger at the aquarium (yeah, I thought it was strange too).

Uncropped photograph - the black line in the middle is the seam of the tank.

I love jellyfish!

Morrison, CO - Dinosaur Ridge

Here is a little history about the site from one of the information signs: "In 1937 the City and County of Denver built Alameda Parkway as the main route to Red Rocks Park. The construction exposed dinosaur tracks, but for many years geologists and members of the public observed them without studying them in detail. In 1983, the area now named Dinosaur Ridge was designated a National Natural Landmark to protect its fossil bones and tracks. In 1991 the area was also placed on the State Register of Historic Places and in 1994 the name "Dinosaur Ridge" was officially approved by the U.S. Board on Geographical Names."

Shuttle we rode for the guided tour.

Marion with triceratop horns and a dinosaur guide.

Me with a Utahraptor claw and a dinosaur guide.

The darker potions in the rock are dinosaur bones.

View of the Red Rocks Amphitheatre from the Morrison fossil area.

Photographs of the Brontosaur Bulges below...

Mother's Day - May 10th

On Mother's Day we did some geocaching with the folks and fed the ducks at our favorite pond in Fairmont Park. We were unlucky with the first cache, which was located somewhere under a gigantic, sap-oozing, pollinating, pine tree in Presidents Circle on the UofU campus. Fortunately, we found the second cache (a puzzle cache in Sugar House Park that was well hidden and took us about 45-minutes to locate).

Macro photograph of some shrooms...

More macro mushrooms (say that three times).

Ken hamming it up.

Dad looking for the cache.

Bird feeding at Fairmont Park.