Physics in California

I have a lot to update you about, but first I thought I would post about Physics.
Surprised? Yeah, me neither.
I mentioned in my last post that I was hired to do physics research for BYU over the summer. Well, that happened. I worked 8-5 every day doing research. It was a good job. I loved my coworkers and my work. Most of the time I just fixed broken things, and broke new things to fix. In the end, we did get it all working, and took some cool data.
Well, Physicists want their data to be reproducible. So we decided to go get the same data on someone else's equipment. Some BIG somebody else's equipment. We got on a plane and flew to use the Advance Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They have an sychrotron--a big thing that circles electrons around at near the speed of light--that produces the light we needed to study, and they have awesome equipment to study that light. SWEET.
Their equipment is pretty cool, and under fairly high demand, so we got the night shift. We did research all night, played around Oakland and San Francisco all day, and barely slept for three days.
Here are some pictures of my adventure:

The view from our very nice Marriot Hotel room in downtown Oakland.

Gotta love unnecessary quotations. :)

This was our lab station, beamline 6.3.2.

Dr. Turley looking like a ghost behind the plastic shield
 by the chamber where we tested stuff.

This was the computer program we used. It was niiiiice. :)

Me on a ferry on the way to San Francisco (the one with a bow).

An Awesome street performer that pretended to be a robot in San Fran.

This black lady drove our bus. She was very friendly.