Wonders of San Frannie

Day three of the trip: I listened to the conference talks via live streaming from our host's home and then we went for a great walk around San Francisco. We walked 7 km!

Fuelling up with some greek yogurt in the morning...

There was a lot of street art murals all over the city

Entrance to Chinatown

The street with all the expensive fashion designer stores (a.k.a Richie-Rich Street)

San Francisco has hills

We aren't even at the top yet.....

Chinatown building

Cable car. Public transportation form the 1900s turned tourist attraction. It works via a huge-ass cable that pulls the carts all over the city

Tired....

Beautiful Stanford - a.k.a The Day of "HAVE YOU SEEN THE PALMTREE"???

The first day I attended the Data Science conference at Stanford. The campus is beautiful and full of great looking buildings.

First thing we saw was a huge amount of tourists that just go to Stanford to hang out there.

The medical building where the conference was. Honestly, it shows when a University is richie-rich.... The food is fantastic and the presentation: wow!

I can totally relate to just sitting around there and studying

Lunch was served under a tent...... enough said :)

Most if not all buildings have this colour theme: yellow building -  red roof

With the palm trees I almost felt like I was in Spain..... or maybe in a oriental-inspired MMO-RPG

The totem was huge: couldn't wrap my arms around it

More gorgeous buildings....

Really Stanford? How is it you are so pretty?

Goodbye Montreal!

Neither of us slept well tonight. We had to wake up around 6 am to go and pick up our passports, then get American currencies and pack our bags.
The thrill of leaving for our trip kept me awake for part of the night. Even Pichu was wondering what was going on. She accompanied me to the bathroom twice: once at 2am and one at 4am. Then when I didn't hear my alarm in the morning she came to wake me up.

We got our passports without any trouble and went back home to pack our bags. Pichu liked exploring the new sitting spots suitcases offer!

 Here is the sunset from over the clouds.

Foggy San Francisco!

36th floor is high :)

Tomorrow we explore Stanford! Goodnight!

Sutton Mountain: Day 3

It was raining all weekend.
We got tired of getting rained on so we ate inside, pretending that the fireplace was a campfire: more sausages :D

On Sunday morning we packed up and left. It was WAY easier to go DOWN the mountain with all our equipment. Plus the water canister was lighter (it was empty) and we ate/drank most our provisions, so we were travelling a lot lighter!

We even took a picture of the remaining wood and that way saved 8.50$!.... which we later invested in coffee :D

It was still raining, but we had a good weekend!

Sutton Mountain : Day 2

I woke up and had a fantastic breakfast of sausages and coffee

While eating, a friend came over....

I wasnt sure if it was a wolf.... it turned out to be a Overly-friendly huskey, that wanted us to share some food. It stayed with us a bit, then heard it's master call and ran off.

We packed up and went for a hike. It was not a hike. It was a climb. A fantastic three-hours climb in the mountain.

We found this old trunk with curious patterns... bugs?

It is still early spring up here, so not much growing.

Old leaves from last fall

And new life too!

Nature is beautiful!

This was the view from up top of where we climbed.

Also, the farm at "Au Diable Vert" was Highlander Cows. These guys are very hairy and shaggy... Its like Justin Bieber but as a cow!

Sutton Mountain : Day 1

So after 2 years of working and working and studying and working, I decided that in between two summer internships, I will take a weekend of vacation. And so I did. Right after prom.
We packed up, and left.

We reserved at a place called "Au Diable Vert", which is a mountain hiking nature thingy.

On the road

The cabin looks like this. It has no water of electricity. No sink, no toilet. Just beds and a fireplace to heat and cook.

Oh one other thing: The cabin was 900m away from the parking place. Uphill... with a 250m hike upwards. over 900m. Which means we huffed and we puffed and we finally got uphill. We unpacked, took a nap (it WAS hard work and we were slightly hung over from prom), went back downhill to bring back the cart.

Nonetheless, the view was breathtaking, the mountain air amazing