Quick recap of my birthday and Austria

Last Friday I had an amazing opportunity to celebrate my birthday in the Austrian Alps. After sitting through a quantum chemistry lecture in German on Friday morning, I decided to skip out on two sessions of talks to explore the hiking trails around the city. After 1.5 hours of hiking uphill, I reached a trailhead. As much as I yearned to explore more, I knew that I needed to return to the conference, so I snapped a few pictures and then walked back down to the conference site.

I sat through a few more hours of conference that day, then left for the Conference excursion to Dachstein Sky Walk, a restaurant and sky walk located 2700m (nearly 9000 feet) above sea level. When we arrived, the entire area was indunated with snow, so my hopes of seeing an alphine sunset were quickly diminished. However, I took the time to enjoy the snow and test out the winterproofness of my new jacket by falling in the snow a few times. I took the time to make a fun video showing my Wurzburg companions and I exploring new and exciting ways to fall in the snow.



I snapped a lot of pictures over the weekend and posted the best ones to my picassa site.

Austria - STC 2008

I hope you enjoy the photos and video!