More Google Fun!

Last Summer we also were lucky enough to have a visit from our two good friends Joe Shurtleff and Ryan Novak. They stopped by on their way to southern California for a concert.  It was a lot of fun and we were really happy to spend a little time with them.  While they were here we made a trip to Google so they could see what Google's all about.  During our visit to Google Ryan coined the phrase "Google is like Willy Wonka for engineers."  After spending the last two summers here I've learn that there is so much truth to that statement.  Google really does try and go out of their way to make sure their employees are happy.

Stan the Google Dinosaur... Just trying to mix things up!

Google offers a lot of really great benefits for their employees so it was pretty fun to show them off to Ryan and Joe.  Something that I thought was absolutely silly was they have bikes painted with the Google colors for the employees to ride when they need to go to a different building.  Just kinda a silly thing to see and sounds a little ridiculous I'm sure but Google in Mountain View is a huge facility and covers a lot of land so they definitely some in handy.

Jon crushed Ryan's hopes and dreams once he told him he wasn't allowed to Ride the Google bikes...

 What...?

Android and I were being attacked by the bee!

After we were done at Google we went back to the hotel while Jon finished up his work day.  When Jon got home we went out to dinner and continued the catching up.  Joe is probably Jon and I's best friend and he's always been someone that we spend a lot of time with when we're back in Utah.  So you can imagine we had a lot to catch up after not seeing him for 2 months.  We stayed up until the wee hours of the night just having a good time and sharing stories.