The Code Bender

After a rather long day, (3 hours longer than normal to be exact) we're finally settled in to our rooms at the Kona Kai and have begun rebuilding the lab... that we transported in 9 seperate checked bags, just about maxing out the weight limit on each one.  Things currently are looking good, no major, "oh god, how did we forget that" moments yet (knock on wood) and we're preping to make a food/supplies run.  We're all just about worn out but that's to be expected.

When we arrived, after some minor confusion (and lots of moving heaving bags around between vehicles) we finally hopped in our 12 person van, and headed out in search of some food and our resort the Kona Kai.  On the way to the hotel we passed Umi Sushi, an apparent club favorite of past years.  A couple of failures in communication and Kevin's opting to wistle that stereotypical asian song out loud before realizing what exactly he was doing gave us a good laugh and a chance to relax after the travels.  We also discovered that we are indeed too far west to find sweet tea, but such things can be overlooked if the weather's going to stay like it is today.

After our massive ship full of sushi (click picture below to see more shots) we headed over to the Kona Kai for the "welcome to AUVSI" meeting at 2 which contained the usual amount of "do this"'s and "don't do that"'s one would expect before 30 robotics teams are sent onto a high tech naval base.  Dave seems to be an interesting guy for those who have been here before.  After a few teams asked questions until the end of time about things that they'll either find out tomorrow or couldn't change anyway the meeting was over and we headed back to our thankfully ajoining rooms, staring straight out at the bay and some rather beautiful (expensive) looking boats.  Since getting back we've been setting up networks for our local SVN magic and trying to get seawolf put together so we can run some pool tests tonight.  Currently, one room is the robot room (check out the pictures below) and the other is for people who needs sleep or who just aren't in the mix at this particular moment.  We've opted to move assembly and soldering outdoors due to the weather (yeah... I'm going to be talking about that a lot... it's just too nice here not to) and the fact that given a choice, we'd like to be invited back here.  Well that's about it for now, enjoy the pictures, we've got an early day coming tomorrow, our registered time for unloading at TRANSDEC is 7:30PST, or to make it sound better, 10:30EST.  Maybe I'll make another post after seawolf hits the water this evening.  Off to dinner and maybe Fry's to look for a gyro!