Commencing the Detox

Well, just like that it's time to go home. My flight to Denver boards in an hour and, thankfully, there are no gourmet restaurants in this airport. No Bloody Mary today. No rich hollandaises or pastries. Just a liter of water and a banana, thank you God. I don't even want to think about the amount of batter and cheese and sugar I've consumed over the last three days.

Yesterday we toured my sil's work place, which is an enormous company that spans over a campus and has themed buildings and projects. We were there for about 4 hours and only saw half of it - it's pretty wild.

In this Harry Potter-esque castle, the pictures move along the walls and within the frames like they do at Hogwart's. Check out the half stairway below.

All the conference rooms are themed. I would never get any work done.

One of the buildings (my personal preference) was called the library, but really it was divided into academic themes/fields such as this one:

And the chemistry-themed cafe:

We spent a lot of time in the library.

They were like, B, step away from the books...

There was an Alice in Wonderland building, too. Trust me, you do not want rabbit carpet like this. You do not want to follow rabbits anywhere.

The slide was the best. I think it's easy to dismiss it because these slides have become commonplace in cool technology workplaces, but dang this thing was fast! It was so fun that we did it over and over again. We were laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. It was hysterical.

I have to say, my bro and I haven't played so much together in a good decade or so. It was so. much. fun.

Even the landscaping was phenomenal.

I can't wait to go back! We're just a quick flight apart now, and traveling between the airports is relatively cheap and convenient, so I see lots more trips like this in our future! I miss them already, but it's time to get back to the surly bun bun. And the Comp II planning.

And detox.

So much detox.

If anyone needs me, I'll be drinking copious amounts of water.