Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Picknic and Shakira

Today we woke up at 9 AM, had breakfast (bagels + milk), and got ready to eave Orinda at about 10:15 AM. We headed towards the Claremont resort and spa, because the hotel company of Joe was having a picknic there. They organised nice games for the kids, there was a swimming lake, ... We first had lunch; caribbean style food, on very nice decorated tables. Afterwards we went swimming and went on a paddle boat together with Kylie and Ann (a friend of hers). We ate a second time, watched the limbo game, ... At 4:45 PM we left and went back to Orinda (I was already getting nervous to make it on time to san Jose) I bought tickets for a concert of shakira in the HP Pavilion and it would start at 7:30 PM.
At 5:15 we sat on Bart, had to transfer in Macarthur station and we arrived at 6:30 in Fremont. There we had to take the VTA bus towards the pavilion. It was a very friendly busdriver, (in Belgium I never spoke to one) but we soon found out we wouldn't make it to the concert on time. After going to will call, where the woman was very happy to see her first belgian passport, we got in our places at 8 PM. But we weren't to late, the concert only started at 9, and went on till 11. I found it very amuzing, so the second time I went to a concert of Shakira won't be the last time. I bought some souvenirs and Vincent called Jeff, a very friendly manm that drove us and is letting us stay with him this night. We already ate a late evening snack: some chicken for Vincent and potatoes for me. Tomorrow morning we'll go back to Orinda.

Greetings, Kurt and Vincent, from San Jose.

PS: Thanks for the comments; Jonathanm Sofie, Els, Silke and our parents. And for letting us stay here in San Jose; Jeff and family!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Also from Belgium, thanks to Jeff and his family , for making the American dream come true.

8/24/2006 11:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks to Shakira too, if you read this, please react!

8/25/2006 12:53 AM  

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