Chicago - Pittcon

This past week I was able to go to Chicago for the biggest science conference in the world called Pittcon. It's an analytical chemistry conference that I was invited to present my research. I was also able to get a lot of practice with the camera.

We thought about maybe going to see Bill maher face off against Ann Coulter but we were hungry.

The deep dish pizza is so good but it is so thick with cheese that we couldn't get through most of it so we gave it to a door man as we walked down the street.

Christina couldn't come with me but this guy is Jon. He works with me on my project as an undergraduate and we hung out the whole week. Poor Christina was at home freaking out about a ward road show movie.

The exposition center was huge it took us two days to get through all of it.

There was a guy doing characactures for free. He used a digital tablet board to draw on and made these in about five minutes. There is no subway just an EL-Train. Which is way sticking loud. We were on the 19th floor of the hotel and it would wake me up in the morning.

I gave my presentation towards the end of the conference so there weren't tons in attendance. But I was also the presider over the session and I forgot to start the timer for myself so throughout the talk I kept taking a peak at my watch. But it went well in the end

Here's the water front. I would have liked to get more pictures while it was raining but I kept getting the lens wet but the water looks so much cooler during the rain. Also it's hard to keep a camera still for thirty seconds in the wind.

After the night it rained the tempoerature dropped from 60 to 20 degrees over night so it was freezing cold the rest of the week for pictures but I got so more anyways.

The Sears Tower in the Rain

The first 15 floors of this building is a parking lot. Then condos above. The resteraunt at the bottom is a really goos Irish Stakehouse. We went there the first night and then two days later the movie "The Break-up" was on and part of it was shot in the resteraunt it was weird.

I really like this one.