Arizona (part 1)
Posted on August 27, 2007
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And I’m back!
Well I arrived a few days ago but still a bit confused with time differences. But getting there!
What can I say?
Memorable to say the least!!!
The only bad thing was the stress of giving the talk that didn’t let me enjoy the place until the last day. But in the end it went well and lets not talk about it again
It all started with adventures at the airport. Our first plane from London to Phoenix was late. In fact it arrived a few minutes before the plane that would take us to Tucson was supposed to depart. And we still had to go through passport control (which as you may imagine is not an easy thing), collect our bags, go through security again, check in again and get on the plane (no, the bags didn’t go directly to the next flight). So after some stress, begging people to get in front of them in line, going through control with iris scan and finger print scan and a nice ‘hey you are Portuguesa’ with a perfect Portuguese accent (the first of a few good surprises about my Nationality), a series of phone call between workers to speed the process and hold the plane, we finally got running through security. I didn’t have time to put my shoes back on, so I ran bare feet through the airport, holding my belt in one hand and the open laptop bag in the other. We finally got to the gate and the flight was late because of bad weather 
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The flight took 22 min!! And we managed to see a lightning storm like you see on the Discovery Channel. Beautiful!!!
Long roads they have there! A grid system and roads as far as your eyes can see. No roundabouts like MK though
We got to the hotel after dark so only in the morning we could see the views. And what a view! The hotel is a Spa resort with pool and Jacuzzis and all can can ask for and a fantastic view of the desert and the city!
The following week was a mixture of watching some talks, working on mine, a scorpion as a companion on the curtains, a spa treatment, a tarantula in the car park and a bit of pool 
Other things to say is that waiters are TOO nice, smiling and asking you so many times if everything is ok that you want to hit them! It really sounded fake as well. Someone even say I have a wonderful English accent (!!!) LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Shopping one day was also out of this world with everything so cheap! Being outside revealed to be very difficult with temperatures around 45 C(!) The banquet wasn’t the best. It was on an interesting site- the airplane bone-yard but it was so hot in the hangars we couldn’t stay there for long.
And then the trip after the conference…in part 2
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Ainda bem que o congresso correu bem e a viagem também… Há sempre aventuras para contar. Olha eu voltei há 15 dias de um no Rio de Janeiro, não é chato?
E tive muito mais sorte que tu, a minha apresentação foi no 1º dia de manhã.
Digamos que até um vestido para casamento comprei, fora o turismo!
Eh eh. Aposto que te divertiste. Tambem estive no Brasil o ano passado mas noa tive muito tempo livre. Ainda assim ja deu para ver umas coisinhas e fazer compras ate cair po lado com coisas tao baratas
Ainda tenho que publicar a parte 2 da viagem que foi depois da conferencia mas ate la tenho que por o trabalho em dia
O que é que a menina ia a fazer para não ter tempo de se calçar e apertar o cinto, ein?
lol
Até dá vontade de lá ir…
Quando se passa pela seguranca tem que se tirar o cinto e os sapatos. E ja nao deu tempo para os por de novo porque tinha que ir a correr para o proximo aviao. Cenas de filmes…