We spend two great weekends with activities around the area. The weekend before last, we were in San Diego, went to a birthday party, and saw tons of pumpkins in a Halloween Pumpkin patch that was lots of fun. It was very hot for the time of the year again, the pumpkin patch was in the mountains between San Diego and Los Angeles and the highest temperature was around 37 Celcius (100 F) that day. That is very hot. During most of last week, Santa Monica has also been unusually hot and relatively humid (for here at least). Luckily things cooled down last weekend, when we ran lots of errands (boxes came in and out of storage, in the hope that one day we will fit it all into our house) and spend the Sunday at the Discovery Cube Orange County, a fantastic museum / activity place for kids.
It is funny how our feeling for distances has already been distorted: The cube is about an hour's drive away, but we just got in the car and started driving on the endless LA freeways (this map gives you a great overview, scroll down slowly to enjoy to its fullest).
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Dirk: Did you know this is my first ever birthday in the US? I was always in the US over the Summer or Winter holidays and when I was in the US for a full year in 2000, I happened to be in Montreal (Canada) for my birthday. It was a rather uneventful day, "I went to work" basically summarizes it, but I had a fantastic weekend behind me so it still was a great day.
I did some more writing on Java Spring at work, learned more about data science and worked on my ping-pong skills, an essential part of working at Pivotal :-) Oh and I got to unpack the fantastic ChromeCast (the 2014 model) at night, which really solves a bunch of the issues we had around media in the living room.
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| This is from the SF office, but ours looks quite similar |
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| Size of a big USB drive |
More news another day!
Dirk & Lea
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