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Hundreds of people from all over the world met at the Mozilla Summit, sharing ideas, talks and — in the evening — drinks. Whistler is a beautiful place and although most of the action took place inside of the Chateau Fremont, I still had the opportunity for one or two walks in the nature, and even some clubbing (and still made to the next talk before nine in the morning). At the last night all of us went up to Whistler Peak where we had a crazy party going on. I did not take any photos, but others did. The only downside to the whole event that I had to witness the German Football team losing to Spain in the World Cup semifinals.
All of us interns at Whistler Peak, taken using Josh’s 70ies Polaroid camera.
Back from the Summit, I did a lot of American Culture stuff. With Mozilla we watched a Baseball Game in San Francisco (the Giants just barely won over the Florida Marlins, scores being equal at the last inning), we went to the theatres to watch Inception (all in all a pretty good movie). A week ago we took the Caltrain to San Francisco again for a Bar Crawl at Polk Street in Nob Hill. Because the bars close down pretty early in the U.S., the crawl starts at 4pm and everyone is pretty much wasted at 8 already. That was an interesting experience…
Yesterday we did a canoeing trip in, and I got so sunburnt. It was a lot of fun though. Most of us brought waterguns, the current was pretty easy (we capsized nonetheless, big fun) and the water had just the right temperature for a swim inbetween.
A lot of Californians have a summer- or weekend-house along the river, which means that they have a beach pretty much for themselves less than an hour on the 101 from cloudy San Francisco. That is, if you do not count city traffic, where we got stuck for an eternity, with wheelchairs and elderly couples overtaking us on our way to the Freeway. Good opportunity to tune in to some radio. There is exactly one among 150 satellite stations playing alternative and indie music, some cultural shock! Metric seems to be pretty cool, and I should also check out Interpol again, as they do remind me of the Editors a lot.
Some of us interns at the Golden Gate Bridge (thanks for the photo, Chris)
The lengthy trip was totally worth it, as I was able to pay my second visit to the Golden Gate bridge since 2007. Now it's time for some Phantom Planet, as we are planning a trip to LA for the next weeks.
