I think I am all packed for WWDC and the nice low 60s weather of San Francisco.

Suitcase. Check. Sweaters. Check. Jacket. Check. Toiletries. Check. Laptop. Check. Power Cords. Check. Early check-in boarding passes. Check. $15/checked bag fee paid. Check.

I guess it has been a while since I have flown. This is actually my first flight where I have been charged the $15/checked bag fee. It is kinda sucky. It reminds me of all those "hidden" taxes and fees on cell phone and cable/internet bills. It was already bad before with people bringing huge bags into the cabin of the plane. I wonder if the fee is just going to make it worse. I did get lucky though. I was able to get exit rows for both legs of my flight. I am glad they haven't started charging for those seats yet.

Tonight my wife and I went on our first mini-date without the baby. We went up and got ice cream at the local Brusters. I am not a really big fan of their ice cream, but they make really good Oreo shakes. Our mini-date lasted all of about 10 minutes though. I am not knocking it. I'll take any chance we can get.

I think it will be really hard to be away from the kid for the week. I think I am going to feel like she has grown a bunch when I get back.

Starting tomorrow I'll start blogging the trip. It looks like the iPhone blogging software can post pictures (one per post) so I'll try and snap ones when I can. No one complain about the image quality. After all it is an iPhone picture. Just trying to keep the phone steady enough so the picture is not blurry is usually a task in itself! At least indoors.