Sameer and myself caught a very early flight from Chicago to San Jose to meet the rest of the team.
We arrived 20 minute earlier than the schedule. As a Silicon Valley airport, San Jose airport offers free wifi access and computer operation tables with power plugs and USB power plugs. Pretty thoughtful, except that the USB plugs do not seem to work.
We had enough bad weather in Illinois, so San Jose stopped raining right after we arrived. What a warm welcome!
We got everybody together and had lunch at La Bamba, my favorite Mexican restaurant.
Although I already had lunch on the plane, I won't miss any chance I am here:
We left from Mountain View around 1:15pm. This is one of the cars in our fleet:
On the way, we saw a beautiful rainbow across the highway I-50. It is the first time in my life I see a rainbow this close:
Given that Pattern Insight have many coffee lovers, stopping by a coffee shop is necessary to make everybody happy.
South Lake Tahoe, our destination, snows a lot today. When we were close by, the road condition became very very bad.
Even the well-known fast driver, Spiros, drove with caution.
We finally safely arrived at our cabin. It is very nice house, spacial and comfortable.
We had a great dinner at
Nepheles. The only thing that made it imperfect was that they do not have food for vegetarians, so Sameer did not have enough food. We went a grocery store and Sameer made some pretty good food by himself afterwards.
PISOP (Pattern Insight Series of Poker) 2009 warm-up event was hold in the cabin after the dinner. We will have PISOP 2009 main event tomorrow.
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