Bloggings from the US
Just a quick blog while im on my lunch break in the US. We flew out on the Sunday just gone (10th) and the flight was pretty brutal to say the least – 11 hours sat on a plane (i didnt bother getting up as the plane was soooo cramped).
The fun and games started straight off the bat, getting out of baggage claiming etc we had to find the car rental place, only to find we had to get a tube basically to the Car rental building? How strange. Once there we managed to find our car and it took us about 30-40 minutes to A) Get out of the car park and b) get the car controls under.. control!
The hotel room was OK, nothing fancy and the freezer compressor makes a racket so that was promptly unplugged and defrosted. The first night we arrived we decided to head to a place called “Gordon Biersch” which was cool, had a few beers and a pizza before heading back for some needed sleep.
Monday was spent in trading before heading to a fancy resteraunt called “E & O Trading Company” which turned out to be more expensive than first thought! We followed that off by heading back to Gordon Biersch for some whiskeys and to watch the ice hockey which San Jose lost!
That nights sleep sucked, as i woke up at 4am and couldnt get back to sleep, so Tuesdays training was spent trying not to die of jet lag. Tuesday night we took it easy, had an early night and grabbed a McDonalds which is not as big as you’d expect over here. Ended up watching “Ghost Lab” also – about a bunch of yanks who run around hunting ghosts with technology. Pretty hilarious!
Anyway, this week we’re off to a few more resteraunts on the light rail train into down town, and hopefully off to San Francisco providing that the weather picks up – we had torrential and tropical thunderstorms the last 2 days with around 8 inches of rain and 60mph winds so it hasnt been the picture perfect california so far!
Sam