A short trip to Aspen

I was sent to Aspen for a couple days for an Enterprise UI Summit that SuperSweetCo held. I flew in on Wednesday afternoon, got into the swanky hotel, and went out to dinner with my coworkers and all of the attendees, which included folks from Adobe, Google, SAP, and RIM, among others. It was a pretty crazy thing, but fun.

Thursday was the first full day of the event, and was very interesting. I learned a lot about what the various companies are doing and how they’re integrating social software inside their various businesses. That night the group went out again for dinner and drinks at a tapas restaurant (you know, a bunch of little plates and little food pellets). I stayed up a bit later than I’d hoped that night, drinking beer and chatting with the attendees, so I only got about 4 hours of sleep before the second day of the event (which was focused on critiquing the application I work on) I was feeling a bit out of it yesterday. 🙂

After the wrap of the event at noon, a group of us took a gondola ride up the mountain, which was amazing. The view was incredible. Got back down the mountain just in time to catch our car to the airport, and then spent the next several hours traveling back home. Got home last night around 8:30pm. Quite the whirlwind trip!

Took a bunch of photos, check ’em out.