Back in The Saddle

Well day 2 at ITMI Symposium 2009 is over and as you may have guessed it has turned out to be just as jam packed with activities and networking opportunities as was the ITMI training course in San Francisco. Evidence of this is the fact that this is the first opportunity I have had to post here. Yesterday we left the hotel at 8:30 AM for an 9.5 hour tour of San Marcos and San Antonio. We "remembered the Alamo", visited the San Antonio Botanical Garden http://www.sabot.org/, the Witte Museum of Art http://www.wittemuseum.org/, the McNay Art Museum http://www.mcnayart.org/?act=libr as well as the Buckhorn Saloon & Museum http://www.buckhornmuseum.com/ which displayed huge assortment of, you guessed it, buckhorns. Also on display were mounted heads of all sorts of animals...even if this is not your idea of a worthwhile "hobby" it is certainly a representation of a time in history which is factual and interesting.
We finished the day at the San Antonio Market Square which satisfied anyone's shopping issues and provided some wonderful " local color." After the tour bus deposited us back at the hotel a few of my August classmates and I went back to San Antonio for a stroll along the Riverwalk http://www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/ which is sort of a little bit of Venice in Texas and provided us a dinner of the most delicious steak I have ever had. Texas Beef...Yeee Hawww!
Today was a full day of speakers and networking oportunities and now we are on our way to the Welcome Party in the Spring Lake Ballroom at the San Marcos Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center http://tinyurl.com/59o4ks.
Tomorrow...more speakers, more networking, more research, and more exhaustion.