Fu**ing s**t we got a fine!!!!

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It was quite a stupid parking fine... but the main thing is that we didn't understand the sign! It was written: Permit Parking 6pm to 2am, and we understood that we were permitted to park between those hours (it was 7:30pm), but NO, no no. What the sign meat was that to park in that place between 6pm to 2am, you NEED a permission!!! And there you go, we got a fine and need to pay for it on-line now.

Next news is: We don't have money in our credit cards! Can you believe that? on Saturday we bought our bikes, and these exceeded the credit card limit, so we won't be able to use it until next month. Was the limit very low or the prices of the bikes very high? hehehehe.

This comes to the next thing: I GOT A WONDERFUL BIKE!!!!!!! Really it was love at first sight! I loved it ! The price was reasonable, it is a good violet/white bike, really it is wonderful! It has only one gear, but I don't mind because probably this is the main reason why it is so light! I can't carry it with one finger if I want! It is super coool!

Mine is white, Rafa's is black:


Yesterday (Sunday) we went to do the Los Gatos trail, which is a bike trail that goes from our city to near the office, It was awesome, we will sure do it a couple of days a week, it is 9 miles (about 14km), have nice views of trees, lakes, people, animals... it is a really nice ride, and I'm really glad we can come to the office by bike sometimes, it must be relaxing...

On Friday we went to celebrate Lucie's birthday at the Beauty Bar, a bar where you can do you manicure while drinking and enjoying friends... a very nice idea :) It was really fun with all the caipirinhas and long islands... hehehe. By the way, I have to pay drinks for the girls in the office now, they kept paying it for me on Friday!! Next time ;). After that we slept at Luis house... which is REALLY nice! I loved it, it is a studio, but it is in a nice place, and very nicely decorated... loved it! Luis took us to the twin peaks and to have the best hamburger of the city... Yummi!!!

So, another week starting... many plans for this week: Stanford classes beginning, University of California classes beginning (PMI), tennis classes beginning (all IF my credit card starts to work), and also hopefully yoga classes... NICE!

Thoughts:
- I NEED to get used to the automatic car... Argh, not easy at all to forget completely about the gears.
- Everyone says to me that things cost last here but... the supermarket cost MUCH more!!!
- How can i say fermento/lievito in english? My crostata was crappy without it!!
- It is true that people here are nice all they time. They talk to you in the supermarket, they compliment you when you go inside a store, they smile, say good morning to strangers... wonderful.
- Living 10 minutes from the office... another life!!!! Quite office? even better!!
- I thought we would get bored at the beginning... but NO! Actually we are "going out" every night, I still couldn't make ANY dinner in our new house.
- Actually I AM SHY!! When I don't know anyone well enough, I discovered I become that little 10 years old girl afraid to talk to people.
- TOO many things to see and to do! Not so many vacation days left.


San Francisco:
We began our journey on Saturday... We had to meet Robi at his house at 1pm... so we got up late, had late breakfast, video chat with my parents, video chat with Rafa parents and... Oh we are late! hehehe as usual. Got to Sanfran at 2pm... hehe. Robi is SO thin! I don't know if he has been exercising or not eating at all, but i found him thinner and taller! strange isn't it? From his house we went directly to the Washington square where the North Beach annual festival was. It was nice, good weather, young people, music, beer (it took us 1 hous to get our beers though). Then Luis arrived! And he looks like the same, except from the beard. It was so nice meeting all them.. here!

After the festival we went to Roberto's house again and... guess what? I slept! AS USUAL! heheheh, Rafa end Robi went to the supermarket to buy food for the dinner, and I stood there, sleeping for 3 hours!!!! Good... otherwise I wouldn't make it to go out after. We had Italian dinner in Roberto's wonderful place and went to the Marina after that. In and out to many clubs... it was nice but we didn't find THE club... the best one was the first we got in with live music and drunk people... but they couldn't find "patata" and it was the first so we left.

The morning after we went to have brunch at Pac Heights... a fancy place of San Francisco, it was nice. After that we went to pick Luis up at his house and here started the the most beautiful part of the weekend: Golden Gate, Marine County, Light House, Cliff house.... wow, all these places where wonderful! The sun, the nature, the beaches!!! LOVED IT!!!

I guess you can see that from the picture...


After all that we went to have dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Missions... it was good: Good company, good food. After that we came back to San Jose, and here we are starting a new week.

Our tourist guys! Thank yoooooooou!!

First impressions

The flight was almost a torture... we didn't know we could do on-line check-in even if we had luggages... so we got the most horrible places inside the plane. We watched 3 films each though... and this helped a lot.
When we got to San Francisco it was 16:30pm, and the sun was high in the sky. But for our body it was 1:30 am, so we where both walking like zombies, our eyes where red, really red, and our body was begging for a sleep. We passed by the office to take our apartment key, got home at 6, took a shower and at 7 we where already in bed.

I woke up at 1am... trick from the timezone, as I couldn't get back to sleep I took all my clothes out from my bags and put it in my new wardrobe... which has plenty of space!! gooooood! At 2 i got back to bed, and slept until this morning, so i guess my body is now used to the 9 hours time difference.

This morning we Came to the office early: 8am. It was amazing, 10 minutes drive and here we are! great! We also took our car this morning. At the end is not the pontiac as we where told, but a Nissan Versus, not very beautiful but it seems a nice car. Anyway they said we will change it every month, so we will get to try many different cars... nice :)

This apartment is cool, it is quite big... it wasn't very very clean... we have carpet all over!!! poor Rafa and his not breathing nose! I will try at least to keep clean :) We also have a second room... you know, when you live with someone that plays the guitar you need it!!! And for anyone who will come to visit us: you will have your own room! ieiii! Ah.. it will probably be Robi's room most of the time :)
The complex where we are living is nice... it has a swimming pool, an actual parking place for us and also for visitors. After work we are going to the supermarket because right now we don't even have shampoos!!! :D

The office seems great, full of young people from all over the world, everyone is friendly, I'm really glad the we will be working here for sometime now, I needed and really wanted a change. There is a fridge full of good stuff, orange juice, milk, waffers, begals, kellogs, chocolates... I need to keep attention not to become a whale!! :) Besides that, today at lunch we noticed that the portions here are HUGE!!! really, every plate is enormous! After lunch we went to a grossery store and an ice cream place... and Dear God.. everything is soooooo american! (duhhh) hehehe. I mean, the cakes are machine made, the ice cream are not only ice cream, but with chocolate, candies, cookies and every kinds of things inside it... Welcome to America, where everything is huge and extra sweet! :)

I can't wait to get to go to San Francisco meet Robi and go to the North Beach Festival, and see the Golden Gate, the piers, the pubs and everything Sanfran (and Robi) has to offer :)

Friday it is! iuhulll!

:)