Work

Monday - Up at 4am do some emails and stuff and then hit the hotel restaurant for breakfast.

Now in the evening the whole hotel restaurant and bar (Asia De Cuba and the Redwood room) are one of the town's coolest locations to hang out in, but at breakfast time it is all quiet. Very weird. The food though is excellent. Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon is a top choice and very filling. I can see why there is a lot of over weight Americans.

Boss had rented a Nissan 4x4 thing to take us to the office which out of SF across the bay so like tourists we were snapping away at anything that resembled Americana.

At lunch the CEO took us all out to a brew pub (micro brewery) for some more deep fried crap to clog up the arteries with. I tried to be healthy and have a TBA (Chicken, Bacon, Avocado type sandwich) with fries. ;-)

Then at 4pm we all jumped back in the car and drove off to the Golden Gate Bridge for some more tourist action. It was at this point I was kicking myself that I did not have the big camera, but I managed to fire off some shots on a colleagues camera. It was an amazing view and thankfully amazing weather, very clear.

Driving around in SF seemed all too familiar and then I realised that I too had driven these streets in Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas and almost felt compelled to start doing driveby shootings and going to the club by the GGB to do some missions. It was so familiar that I was actually able to give directions and remember and see the real locations. Was very spooky.

Got back to the hotel and decided to have a quick teatime cocktail on the roof terrace of Macys in Union Square. Shame so did loads of other people. Shame that the bar is actually a chain of Cheese Cake Factory and shame they dont know how to make a Mojito and shame that they decide it decadent to put blobs of squirty cream on an already over sweet cheese cake (mine was White Chocolate and peanut butter). I managed to eat half before realising that this was not good.

The rest of the evening was spent at the hotel meeting other fellow colleagues as they flew in from various US locations.

Bed at midnight.
Up at 5:30am deal with some calls to the UK
Ready to go!!!
Perhaps I might just go downstairs for some breakfast.