Zurich, Switzerland

Nathan and I spent this last weekend in Zurich. He had some meetings at the office there on Monday, so we decided to make a little trip of it.

It's a cute little city sort of reminiscent of Lake Tahoe with it's huge lake and the city surrounding. We basically just wandered around, ate fondue and Swiss chocolate and shopped. The weather was beautiful and the Swiss people were SO friendly. Maybe a little too friendly, apparently we stayed in a hotel near the nightclubs (oops! Shera's picks strike again!) and the sex industry seems to be a part of the norm there. I dunno, maybe that's just my experience.

Really though, the Swiss people were very nice. We met several people at restaurants just sitting next to us and they loved that we were from California. Everyone in Europe loves California it seems.

On Sunday we went to the Google office (the central office in Europe) for Nate to do some prep for work the next day, and I got to play (a bit). Not sure if you've ever seen pictures of this office, but it's a virtual playground. There's a huge slide you can go down to get to the ground floor, firefighter poles (which took me a while to figure out, "why do they have a striptease pole in an office???), a huge video game room and these little meeting rooms that are shaped like deep sea diving equipment, ski lifts and eggs. All equipped with phones of course. We couldn't take pictures, but you can go here and see some public domain pics.