Week-end with Yolande

Hi everyone,

As you already know Yolande was with us this week-end, so we tried to maximize it.

On Thursday the weather was really bad, but it didn't really matter as we all had to work. We took the car and all went to the campus in the morning. In the afternoon, Yolande went back to Mountain View where Google offices are and she had a very good discussion with someone from the communication department. For dinner, we went to a restaurant (The Cheese Cake Factory) in Palo Alto.

We can't say the sun shines all the time here but at least the bad weather doesn't last: on Friday the sun was already shining again. This time we all went to Stanford by bike. Yole walk around on the campus while MC had class... After that they both went to the Stanford shopping center while I(Go) had a seminar. On the way back we stopped to rent a DVD.

On Saturday we went to San Francisco. We first did some sight seeing on our way to "the city" (as they would say here): we drove through the foothills to Half Moon bay and then along the coast... In San Francisco we parked the car and walked around: Nob Hill, Russian Hill (where the famous, very steep, Lombard Street with all the turns is -- a little bit disappointing though, we thought it would be even steeper ;-) ), the Coit Tower (nice view of San Francisco from up there). We also took the well-known cable car! As the sun goes down at 5:30 pm, we had plenty of time to go right under the Golden Gate Bridge and take some pictures of it "by night" ;-) We ended up the day in a sushi restaurant: delicious!

Sunday we drove down to Santa Cruz which lies at the Ocean. We saw sea lions under the pier. After lunch, we biked along the sea to reach a mountain bike trail inside the Wilder Ranch park. The trail was not so easy for Yolande and me(MC), but we had a lot of fun!

After having some good pastas for dinner at the apartment, it was time for Yolande to take the plane and go back to Boston: that was the sad part of the story ... :-( ... but we all keep a bright souvenir of this week-end :-)

And of course, as usual here are some pictures (some more will come later, and even a movie when we get some time to "edit" it)!

Marie-Catherine & Goeric