Saturday, August 11, 2007

Friday in San Jose

With SIGGRAPH over we have flown up to San Jose. US airport security sucks you even have to take your shoes off and put them thru the x-ray machine !

San Jose is big and our hotel is little out of the way. The gift basket was a bag of lollies and microwave popcorn. Excellent. I really get the feeling you need a car to get around this place. It is also very very hot here I think I even got a bit sunburnt.

Our first stop after checking in was the flea market. Its supposed to be the biggest in the world only about 400 of the stalls are open on a Friday so it wasn't to busy. Apparently 2000 stalls are open on Saturday and Sundays !

After that we caught a cab into the downtown area of San Jose and went to TheTech museum of innovation. This is a create place with almost all the displays being interactive in a way and all to do with technology. We only had a hour before they closed so rushed from one place to another.

From there we wandered around the downtown area for a bit and had dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. The food was very good.

Headed home for an quite night as we are planning a day trip to San Fransisco tomorrow. Gonna try get a Greyhound bus, how American is that :)


1 comment:

johan said...

We have been blown away by all this new stuff. Gobsmacked does not even get close.