Award ceremony and banquet

Well, a busy day yesterday at the American Geophysical Union Fall Conference...

A late start with a small breakfast at Starbucks followed by a trip to collect Peter's certificate and lapel pin and then we met up with Bob and Mary for lunch and caught up with their news.

Loyal supporters!

Peter went off to get changed into his DJ before attending a rehearsal for the award ceremony and I went with Mary to look round the exhibits in one of the vast meeting halls while Bob dropped into a session or caught up with people he knew.  I had to go back to the hotel to change and then we all met up again with other friends at the ceremony.    It was a very slick affair with a lot of people being honoured.  Afterwards we milled around and then made our way to a nearby hotel for the banquet, attended by about 800 people.  The food and the service were amazingly good considering the logistics!  A bit of dancing...and then back to the hotel.

On the big screen...

Peter and the President Elect

Didn't he do well!

Apparently there were a total of 25,000 people registered for the conference, so it wasn't surprising that we later found out about other people we knew who were there!

We left San Francisco this morning and are now back in College Station.