California

After a few whirlwind days in Chicago I headed to San Francisco to begin my California adventure. Natalia and I met at the airport and I had a very interesting time trying to lug my two huge suitcases up escalators, in elevators, and onto trams. We finally arrived at the rental car place and headed to our hotel before heading out to San Francisco.

The city is beautiful. We walked all over and I was treated to wonderful details about the city from Natalia as she had previously visited the city twice. We had a great dinner at a sushi restaurant my sister recommended before we headed back to get some much needed sleep. Sunday we had breakfast in the city, did some shopping, and then headed down to San Jose to get ready for our conference.

The token cable car

China town

A really tall building

North Beach (Italian section of San Francisco)

Alcatraz

Sealions

Sunset over the bay

The giant crane machine!

Everyone loves Torino!

Dinner in San Jose

On Sunday night I met Joan from our Spanish affiliate and Herve from our French affiliate. Monday I met Kim from our Dutch office and Iain from our UK office. Spending the week with these five individuals was amazing. The stories and life experiences they have all had are wonderful and I learned so much from each of them. The conferences were very succesful and I hope we have shown both our current and potential clients how strong our international network is.