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Today was a long travel day to arrive in Seattle for tomorrow’s start of ACRL 2009. Mary Beth and I caught a 6:25 am flight from Greensboro and arrived at our hotel around 1 pm (western time) after 7 hours of flight time and a stop in Houston. Roz flew on a different airline and showed up mid afternoon. Since the conference doesn’t start until tomorrow afternoon, Roz and I took advantage of the beautiful, if cold, afternoon to ride to the top of the Space Needle and visit Pike Place. We ended up at the Convention Center to pick up our conference materials so we can plan out the next few days (which we are doing as I type). The conference is being touted as being their greenest one ever. The conference bags are made from recyled material and the opening reception tomorrow night will use bamboo plates and compostable silverware. Tomorrow morning all three of us will taking advantage of a social networking opportunity as we join up with other conference attendees to go on a tour. Tune in tomorrow to hear about the “Chocolate, Wine and Waterfall” tour!