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Cloud City

If you're looking for a room with a view, stop by the International Reception in the Sheraton Hotel's Cirrus Room (35th floor).  You'll have an opportunity to meet Dennie Heye, the 2008 SLA Europe Information Profession Award recipient, and conference attendees from across the globe. The reception starts at 6:00pm and will run until 7:30pm, and is sponsored by Dow Jones.

Belgian Waffles with Fresh Fruit - to die for

Ate breakfast at the Pike Place Bar and Grill because i was wandering by and saw a sign for fresh belgian waffles.  SO GLAD I WENT IN!!!  i can honestly say they were the best waffles i've had in my 29 years.  you can get them with fresh raspberries, strawberries or blueberries, and/or with butter and syrup.  $6.95 for all you can eat.  delicious!!

SLA Salutes! Awards and Leadership Reception

This year's Awards and Leadership Reception will be held at the Space Needle from 7:30pm-9:30pm. 

Your event ticket is your Monorail pass.  Please present it for your free Monorail ride.  If you don't know where to catch the Monorail, a group escort will be available from the lobby of the Sheraton hotel (1400 6th Avenue).

Monday location change for A&M Division

The Advertising & Marketing Division No-Host Dinner (6:00pm-7:30pm) will be held at the Chapel Bar, 1600 Melrose Ave.

Bloggers Happy Hour

Over on What I Learned Today..., Nicole Engard posted information about the IT Division's Blogging Section happy hour, scheduled for Tuesday the 17th at Wild Ginger (5:30-7:30).  More details in her post....

Dine-arounds in Seattle on Saturday evening

Join members of the Pacific Northwest Chapter for informal dine-arounds on Saturday evening, June 14. Dine-arounds are no-host meals led by a local chapter member at a restaurant in the downtown area. The group will meet and go to the restaurant for a friendly and casual meal. Dine-arounds are a great way to get oriented to the area and get the inside scoop from a local resident. Make new friends before the conference really gets going on Sunday!!

For the available dine-arounds check out the Seattle attendees wiki: Seattle 2008 wiki for the host and restaurant information.

Edible Seattle

Seattle has a new publication called Edible Seattle.  Edible Seattle joins a list of other "edible" regional magazines in the U.S. For those of us interested in food and local food, this magazine and web site might hold a few nuggets of useful information.  For example, I looked at the advertising and found myself intrigued by Uli's Sausage in Pike Place Market.  Their web site led me to the Pike Brewing Company, which serves their sauage.  mmm....I think I see a pilgrimage coming.

Dancin' with the Gold Diggers

The ITE division party was the place to be tonight.  Great music, great dancin', great fun!  Watch for lots of pictures and videos of your SLA friends!

Good Eats So Far

Here are some quick reviews of places I've eaten in the past 2 days:

The Denver Chop House: On Wynkoop right next to Coors field.  Great steak, great service, and a delicious raspberry lemonade cocktail that was out of this world. Spent ~$30 for a drink and entree.

Jamba Juice:  On the corner of 16th and California, big yellow awning.  Someone on this blog mentioned you could have one of their drinks for a meal.  I happily did so and it was good to tide me over for a few hours.  Being made of fruit, these drinks have a lot of sugar in them (most had 60 - 100 g), but there were a few "light" options that were under 60 grams.  Spent $4 for a small (which was quite big).

Tokyo Joes: On the corner of 16th and Arapahoe. Great asian food where you could get sushi or choose from a number of noodle or rice bowls with different kinds of meats, veggies and sauces.  Perfect portion sizes.  Spent $9 for a drink and noodle bowl. 

The Broker: On 17th between Stout and Ciampa.  Located in the old bank vault of the Denver National Bank building, the atmosphere is pretty cool.  Dinner was very pricey but all inclusive - shrimp bowl, salad or soup, entree, and dessert.  OK, I splurged majorly on this one - spent ~$80 for filet mignon (with all previously mentioned courses) and one drink.

Thanks B&F and Datamonitor!

The Business & Finance Division Open House was last night at the Hyatt Regency's Capitol Room.  Sponsored by Datamonitor, it was a nice spread and a casual atmosphere in which to meet and mingle.  I myself am not a B&F member, but I do subscribe to their listserv.  However, becoming a member of this division (in addition to my beloved Legal Div) looks to be in my future.  Note to all other divisions hosting open houses...get your hands on this Crab & Gruyere Dip.  The success of your open house depends on it.  ;-)

I met quite a few solo and/or independent librarians, not quite sure of the proper terminology.  This is a fairly new concept to me, so I find this interesting.  So, if you are a solo or independent librarian and you meet me at the conference, please just let me ask you a few questions about what you do.  I won't bite, I swear.