Today class was very heavy on math. We were split in groups again but different groups than yesterday so I got to meet a couple of new people. Another long day, but I think this was probably the worst because of all the formulas and math. We did get out a little early, so that was a plus.
After class, we decided to go to a restaurant called Claim Jumper. It's a chain throughout this area - California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Washington, Wisconsin, and Illinois to be exact. The food was excellent - very large portions and great tasting. For desert they had HUGE pieces of cake - I'm talking a foot high (10 layer I think) chocolate cake, and an eclair that was about 6" x 12", which is what they got for our table. There were seven of us and we still didn't finish.
The restaurant was right next to an outlet mall, so we had to make a stop there and do some shopping. Just about everyone (except me) found and bought a bargain. The things I found that I liked either were too small or too large. Because I started the trip with my luggage almost overweight (traveling with about 8 lbs of study materials), I was trying to be good and tonight it worked.
After the mall we headed back to the hotel and hung out in the hotel bar - it ended up being about 9 of us all together - quite the showing considering there are only 16 of us taking the course. Of all my "work" trips this one we all have just seemed to click. I think probably because we all hold similar jobs in the same industry, working for the same parent company. It sure does make the class time sail by and everyone is comfortable enough to ask questions and work through problems together.
Tomorrow is another day ....