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Two weeks ago I visited the Google's Headquarters in Mountain View for the second time and would like to share with you guys some of the cool stuff I saw inside. From the outside the headquarters look like a regular American college campus.

Ok, maybe not so regular.

When you go inside things get a bit crazy. It feels like a mixture of a science museum, college dorm, playground, the smart house that falls in love with Marge from The Simpsons, and a hippie commune.

A full-scale replica version of the SpaceShipOne

180 degree screen with images from Google Street View. Who knows where that is? :)

A Google Maps camera car

A giant Android phone that lets you play games

One of the meeting rooms

A micro-kitchen, which has free coffee, drinks and snacks. Most of the things they have are healthy and organic.

Chewing gums at the micro-kitchen (for free too)

You can never forget you are at Google because you can see its logo EVERYWHERE!

You can do your laundry while at work... For free, of course!

If you need to take a power nap you can use this nap pod

One of the cafeterias where Google workers can have lunch and dinner. Also,
every Thursday they do here an one-hour internal presentation with Q&A hosted by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in which they show some products that are being developed by Google. Only Google workers can attend those presentations though

One of the Google building's lobby. And yes, that thing on the right side is a slide!

The slide in more detail

After the slide you can just go and play snooker

California Friends Life Long Beach

The birthday girl

I'm back from my trip to Florida! This Wednesday was one of my roommate's birthday so we all went to Yard House, a really nice restaurant here in Long Beach. We sat outside on the patio, which had a really nice overlook of the Long Beach harbor. Ana seemed really happy and we all had a great time with her and with each other! We had some candles on our table and they became our favorite toy throughout the dinner, haha :)

California Family Friends Nature Night Summer Sunset Travel USA Yosemite

I know that I haven't posted in ages but this morning I had a long talk with my friend Ines and she told me I should restart my blog. I was not that excited at the beginning with the idea but then I thought, "why not?". I mean, I have tons of pictures in my laptop and on my cellphone that I've never shared with anyone and my family and most of my friends live really far away, so I guess those are good reasons, right?

So well, this past weekend I went with my brother, Irene and their friends to Yosemite National Park. I wanted to go there since I moved to San Diego but last year I didn't get the chance. The park was beautiful, it was like being inside a giant postcard! In one of the nights we decided to stay until late to see the stars at Glacier Point, which was a perfect spot to see Half Dome and the valley. It was really worth it, especially because one of my brother's friend brought his tripod. By the end of the night we were alone and we were scared we would be attacked by a giant bear, but fortunately nothing happened. However, on our way back, we saw a coyote crossing the road (okay, I confess, I didn't see it because I was already sleeping...).

California La Jolla Life UCSD USA

I am finally in La Jolla and I couldn't be happier!! I am living at International House, one of the on-campus housing. 50% percent of the residents are International students and the other 50% are Americans, which is great! I'm sharing my apartment with two girls from California and a girl from China.

The weather has been great, sometimes even too hot. The UCSD campus is gorgeous! So big and full of trees! Next time I will post pictures of it!