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One of the reasons why I’ve been so busy this year is because of all the big events.  Along with three weddings (mine included) comes three bachelor parties.  As of this post, we’ve already gone through two of them, and they’ve both been an awesome time.  I’ll get to the second one in a future post, but first things first.

Dave was the first to get married this year, so to celebrate we planned a guy’s weekend in Lake Tahoe.  I’ve never been there before, but have seen Dave’s video from his trips and it looked amazing.  It was as blue and awesome as I imagined which really lent itself towards taking a lot of very blue photographs.  I invested in a polarizing filter for my relatively new dSLR camera.  The weekend was filled with Kan Jam, wine, hiking and biking.  I took a ton of pictures so check out a few below and a couple of sets on Flickr too:

All of Dave’s Bachelor Party in Lake Tahoe (289 photos)
Best of Dave’s Bachelor Party in Lake Tahoe (53 photos)

The guys hiking at Lake Tahoe

Don and his new lobster friend

Wine + Grilling = Perfect Weekend

Finally, Spring is here.  I was definitely tired of the snow piled up on the streets for weeks.  To celebrate, and get out of the house, we took a day trip down towards Charlottesville to visit a couple wineries for the day (Barboursville and Horton).  We picked up a few bottles, and look forward to drinking them on our rooftop this summer.

See C-Ville Wineries on Flickr.

Great weather at Barboursville

Last week I got to go to my first Omniture Summit.  For those that don’t know, we use Omniture at work to measure everything about what people do on our site.  The summit is a gathering of all the vendors, clients and Omniture employees to figure out what is going on in the web analytics world and what the trends in the industry are.  Yeah, it sounds pretty nerdy, but it’s what I do!  I gotta say, I enjoyed being immersed in learning and thinking about the different ways real companies are out there solving problems – and how we can do it better.  On top of all that I won a business card drawing from one of the sessions (more on that one later).

As you can imagine, the conference costs a decent amount of money, which allows them to bring in great speakers, and entertainment for the week.  This year, the big speakers were John Battelle, marketing guru Seth Godin, and The Killers!  They were awesome.  I hope to go again next year.  But enough of that talk – I just wanted to share a few pictures that I took…

Omniture Summit on Flickr

Seth Godin speaking at Omniture Summit 2010

View of the mountains from my hotel room

I woke up to this in the morning!

Killers playing at The Rail in SLC

Thanks to a recommendation from Andrew – I’ve just ordered these Audio-Technica active noise-canceling headphones for all my upcoming trips this year.  I’ve never had good headphones before, so I’m pretty excited.  They received a good review on iLounge also – so we’ll see how they are once I get them.