PDC 2008 Experience Day -2
PDC 2008 Experience What is that you ask. Well I plan to document the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, better known as PDC, experience that I had this year. Day -2? Yes, PDC technically starts on Monday, but I got here two days earlier to catch in some of the sites and sounds (and smells) of LA... Well let's get started.
I arrived at LAX at around 10:30am, after picking up luggage and rental car, my wife and I started our typical "What do you want to do now?" conversation, well we decided to drive up Pacific Coast Highway towards Malibu. After, the lovely drive up PCH we headed to the Hilton Checkers to check in. Once we checked in we walk around the Downtown LA area looking for lunch. After walking around for a while, we decided to go the the food court in the Macy's plaza. We ended up eating at a Carl's Jr. The food was ok but the dining room had a lot to be desired. There were homeless people in it, it smelt of urine. On a positive note, it was the first fast food restaurant that served beer by the pitcher. After that it was back to the hotel room.
The next part of our day we wanted to go to Santa Monica to watch the sunset. Nothing bets a west coast sunset.
We went to the third street promenade in Santa Monica where we say some street performers names One Love, which were pretty entertaining with the exception of the racist comments every couple of sentences. At one point when they wanted to get the audience involved they would scream Clap your hand if you are ... ...white, ...black, ..Jewish. At one point they said if you were voting for McCain (there was a McCain rally desk next to them) and not a person clapped, they then said Clap your hands if you are voting for Obama and everyone clapped, it was interesting.
We then stopped at the Cabo Grille for 2 for 1 drinks for about an hour. Then off to catch the sunset and the Santa Monica Pier.
Oh, I almost forgot about Fred. He too was attending PDC but was unavailable for comment.
Stay tuned for PDC Experience Day -1 (Santa Barbara) and Check in