I've just finished leading a week of training in Flagstaff, Arizona, for a variety of National Park Service staff from parks all over the country. They have plans to deploy a number of Drupal based sites to operate several different virtual learning centers from each of their parks.

One of the neat things about training NPS technology professionals is that they each come packaged with a cool background in biological sciences and experience of service within the parks. One of the trainees, now leading a technology front in the Olympic Peninsula region in Washington not only lead technology and IT teams, but also researched Mediterranean tortoises for a decade. Pretty neat.

One of the more fun portions of the training week, apart from the awesomeness of the classroom time, was taking a side trip to the Grand Canyon with 10 park service employees. These new Drupal trainees used fresh air and space to practice their new ninja Drupal skills, including flight and weightlessness (as seen above).

After loosely throwing around terms like "drinking the Drupal Kool-Aid," one of them (we don't know who) made an attempt at designing an alcoholic beverage named "The Drupal". It contained vodka and blue curacao and is served in a teardrop shaped glass. Its measurement of success is written on this trainee's face (seen below).