Google IO features 80 sessions (mini classes), with more than 5,000 developer attendees, and over 100 demonstrations from developers showcasing their technologies!

Keynotes is the kickstart to the day. Everyone is shoved into one VERY LARGE banquet room to see, hear, and meet the developers and other special guest including CEO speakers for LogiTech,Sony,and Sports Illustrated.

This year’s conference along with many other year’s was held in the Mascone center in downtown San Francisco California.

May 19-20 2010

Free Swag Google gave us for attending!

• Verizon Droid smart phone
• Sprint HTC EVO 4G smart phone (Available to public June.4th 2010)
• American Apparel Google IO 2010 Conference Tshirt
• Google IO 2010 socks

Check out some pictures from along the way…

Level 1 (there are 3 levels total)
This is where we pick up our Gear/Swag, looongggg line!

Fully catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner! These cupcakes were at dinner for dessert

Keynotes, look at the HUGE projector screen

Going up to other floor levels to conference rooms

Event Website: http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/

Event Twitter: http://twitter.com/googleio

Keynotes Day 1 on YouTube: Watch it!

Keynotes Day 2 on YouTube: Watch it!

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1. Make a delicious iced coffee

2. Make coffee ice cubes for an instant pick me up to your next drink

3. Use extra grounds for baked goods such as brownies, scones, or muffins

4. Add to a chocolate milkshake for a yummy dessert

5. Make coffee ice cream the old fashioned way

6. Use as a stain to dye paper products for a distressed look and textured feel

7. Use as a fertilizer on your indoor plants

8. Use as a deodorizer by pouring down drains to keep sinks smelling fresh

9. Use as a cleaner, coffee has amazing acidity to help scrub off the hard stuff

10. Great as a cat/pest repellent in the garden

11. Give your hair a boost, coffee helps with dandruff and will your give hair extra shine

12. Touch up furniture and home decor by using as a stain to cover up unwanted scuffs

13. Kick start a compost pile

14. Can be used as a Organic flea dip for your pets. Rub grounds into the coat and rinse well for an itch free friend

15. Keep your skin soft, caffeine has been shown to tighten and firm the skins appearance

16. Sprinkle grounds in the fireplace to reduce the spread of the dusty ashes

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Before:

After:

Yield: 2-4 servings –depending on how much you like to eat

Ingredients:

• 1 pound fresh Salmon
• 1 large lemon or 2 mini/small lemons
• 2 sprigs fresh Dill, or 2 teaspoons dried Dill Weed
• Salt and Pepper to taste
• 1 tablespoon unsalted or sweet cream butter cubed
• 1 sheet of tinfoil

Directions:

1. Wash Salmon under cold water. Pat dry

2. Place Salmon on tin foil sheet Salmon skin side down, Pink side up

3. Add a pinch of salt and pepper to taste

4. Squeeze 1/2 of large lemon over entire Salmon. If using small lemons, use one to juice over the Salmon

5. Sprinkle dill evenly over entire Salmon. If using sprigs, remove dill from sprig and lay on top of Salmon

6. Take the other half of lemon, slice into rounds and lay on top of Salmon. If using small lemons, slice second lemon into rounds

7. Use cubed butter to layer on top of Salmon

8. Grab all sides of tin foil and close completely with leaving 1-2 inches of room

9. Best if marinade overnight.

10. When ready to serve: Preheat grill to Medium

11. Place Salmon while still in tinfoil on top of grill

12. Grill on Medium heat 8-10 minutes or until firm and bright organgeish color

13. Remove from grill and Serve immediately

Jeff scored a FREE top of the line Char-Broil BBQ on the Portland Craigslist last week, works like a charm and turns out some great grilled grub. Now that the weather has been consistently nice, we have taken advantage of it and started to grill almost every night. Grilling is quicker than cooking indoors, healthier, and cheaper because we aren’t wasting any food. Another cool item new to us is our grill basket; a metal square shaped basket that has holes on the bottom that sits right on top of the grill without losing small contents such as cut up vegetables or shrimp.

Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend we bought a pound of Salmon (recipe to follow) that was on sale at our local grocery store, with some fresh vegetables ( artichoke, yellow squash, and red potatoes). The meal turned out great and was one of the best meals I have ever had!

Happy Memorial Day!

Take time today to truly enjoy this day and thank the U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. I found these cute “patriotic Tootsie Rolls” in the bulk section at Winco Foods. I grabbed a pound of these little tootsies to snack on in spirit for Memorial Day and for the upcoming 4th of July!

The Portland Rose Festival is an annual festival held during in late May, early June in Downtown Portland Oregon! It is organized by the volunteer non-profit Portland Rose Festival Association with the purpose of celebrating the Portland region. Since 1930 a queen has been selected from a court of high school seniors from each school in the Portland/Metro area where a college scholarship is awarded to a 14 members of “royalty”. During Fleet Week of the Rose Festival; boats from United States Navy, Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers and the Royal Canadian Navy dock along the seawall of Tom McCall Waterfront Park. In past years Portlanders were allowed to tour the ships and meet the fleet of the boats, but because of safety precautions, touring the boats are no longer an option. The festival also hosts a Champ Car race at Portland International Raceway, Dragonboat races on the Willamette River, The Starlight Parade showcasing floats covered in lights, and The Grand Floral Parade where floats are decked out in only organic materials such as flowers, grains and seeds. A fireworks display kicks off the week on opening night of the Festival with Carnival rides along the Portland waterfront, among other events and festivities!

*Jeff and I set out for opening night downtown Friday on the waterfront to enjoy the wonders of opening night and what Portland spirits really have to offer. Admission to the festival was FREE because it was opening night, we enjoyed food, carnival rides, and looking around at local vendors selling homemade items. It was great, and to top off the night there were fireworks where the whole community stood around on the waterfront to watch the kick-off display.

This year’s Rose Festival Celebrations lasts from May 22nd – June 14th

If you would like more information about the Rose Festival Visit them at:

http://www.rosefestival.org/

The One Lovely Blog Award is all about making new friends. So, I am passing on this award to the following 15 new bloggy friends. They, in turn, must give it to 15 bloggers, and so on, and so forth. In no special order, of course:

1. Casa Camacho

2. 4 Crazy Kings

3. Just For Fun

4. No Time for flash cards

5. Frugal Family Fun

6. This and That

7. Adventures of Flake

8. Bloggin It

9. My Little Gems

10. The How-To-Gal

11. Homemaking Fun

12. Ucreate

13. Small Fry & Co.

14. nannygoat

15. The Crafty Crow

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