Blogs from Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America - page 3

- - Looking Forward - - Hi... Welcome to my NEW Travel Blog!! I have planned a trip the Huntington Gardens in San Marino for Saturday, 04/24/2010. Since I have come to love the Huntington so much, I thought that I would share the visit here on my new travel blog. More to come... ... read more

Hallo allemaal, Jaja, dat hadden jullie niet gedacht he!!! Net in Los Angeles / USA aangekomen en nu al een teken van leven!!! Na een werkelijk perfect vlucht vandaag (KLM, rechtstreeks op LA) van 10,5 uur kwamen we redelijk vermoeid op het vliegveld aan. Ik moet zeggen dat we de beste stewardess ooit gehad hebben. Ontzettend aardig, ze bleef bijvoorbeeld maar drinken halen, twee maaltijden gekregen en ook nog ijs! Echt een perfecte service. Vervolgens nog wel meer dan een uur bij de douane in de rij gestaan, maar opeens werden alle 'nice KLM people' uit de rij gehaald en mochten we voor?!?!? Vreemd!!! Net of KLM een dealtje met de douane heeft gemaakt ofzo. Bij het autoverhuur bedrijf aangekomen was ik nu scherper dan ooit. Na alle geintjes van voorgaande jaren (benzine tank te veel ... read more

Here is what I've been up to in LA. On Friday, I worked as a volunteer at the conference. There were 8 of us, all Ph.D. students. To use this highly qualified group of people, they gave us 1000 bags and stacks of pieces of papers from the conference sponsors to put in the bag. Being 8 CS students, we quickly came to the conclusion that the optimal way to do this was to set up 2 assembly lines with 4 people each, and divide the flyers in a specific way. Apparently it worked, since we finished in 3 hours instead of the 8 hours that were planned. On Saturday I went to Universal Studios, which was a lot of fun. On the way back I stopped at Hollywood Boulevard to look at the stars on ... read more

Day 107 - San Francisco - Yosemite NP We had a morning of sorting our lives out before leaving Pat and Robert's around midday. It was back to living out of our bags after a week and a half of luxury! We set off to try and find San Andreas Fault but we failed in our mission - the Tomtom did not live up to it's usual standards! We still had a nice drive around Los Altos Hills though so the time was not wasted. Once we had admitted defeat we set off on our way to Yosemite National Park. It was a long drive so we did not arrive until 7.00pm but the last hour of driving into the park really got the juices flowing, we went to bed very excited about the next ... read more

Yeah 2 weeks to go till I leave and i am just now trying to figure out how to download pictures from my camera to my mini computer! ! So here goes a test Wish me luck... read more