Microsoft 2007 MVP Global Summit
After a missed connection from Chicago to Seattle thanks to a delayed flight from London I'm now finally on my way to the
Microsoft 2007 MVP Global Summit in Seattle. Or I should say almost as this flight is also delayed and it might take another hour or so to actually get under way. I was hoping to get there in time for Jeffrey Palermo's "
Party with Palermo" gig but judging by how tired I was when I finally crashed at the hotel last night I'm thankful for the couple of hours of sleep I did get. Hopefully I can get some more sleep in before the actual Summit sessions starts tomorrow because with speakers like Bill Gates, Anders Hejlsberg, Mike Hall, Chris Anderson, Don Box, Luca Bolognese, Charlie Calvert, Mads Torgersen... the list just goes on, tomorrow would be a good day to be alert and not as brain dead as I'm feeling at the moment.
But even without the Global Summit this would be a great trip. (Apart from the missed and delayed flights of course). Before flying to the US we got to spend a day in London with our good friends
Janus & Maryke where we finally got to sample some of the fine beverages from their "Traditional Ol' English Pubs" joined by several other friends that's moved to the UK over recent years. And after the MVP Summit I'll be flying back to and meet up with them again in Amsterdam for the start of a two week Eurotrip through the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Spain and Ireland :)
I originally wrote this post on the airport in Chicago but didn't get a chance to post it but since then I've eventually reached Seattle and had a chance to check-in to my hotel, the Grand Hyatt, register for the actual conference and squeeze in some sight-seeing in downtown Seattle with
Ernst.