So this little blog of mine will serve as a place to write about my trip to Long Beach and my adventures at TED 2009 this week. As I believe I mentioned before, I was selected as one of the Fellowship members invited to attend TED this year. Lucky~!
I left North Bay for California on Sunday, but missed my connection in Toronto because of too much snow on the runway in North Bay which delayed my flight. Sunday afternoon was spent in the airport waiting for my flight to LAX at 5:30pm. So I didn’t end up at my hotel in Long Beach until around 9pm.
But the first day in Long Beach, here at the Hilton, was lovely! My Fellow roomate and I spent the afternoon by the pool. It’s so nice here, I don’t think I’ll be wanting to go back to the -40c weather up in northern Ontario. 
We registered and got our TED badges around 4pm and then got ready for the TED Fellows welcome party by the pool.
The welcome party was beautiful and everyone is so friendly and interesting. And wow, the amazing swag they had for all of us at the end–it was like being on Oprah, lol! “YOU get a car and YOU get a car!”, ok, no cars…but we all got gift bags with this neat little HD video cameras, and Nokia smart phones! Hadn’t I just been complaining that day that my phone was horribly annoying to send txts with? THANK YOU!
