Helicopter ride in Maui

Hey everybody!!!   I know that I haven't posted anything on my blog for a while, so, I have decided to post a couple pictures that I took on my helicopter ride in Maui.


 This was our helicopter

 The sugar mill

 A valley on the Northern part of the island

 Another valley

 The side of a cliff that leads into the valley

 The tallest waterfall on the island

 The city of Kahului where the airport is located

 The Hana coastline

 Pineapple plantations

 A valley in the southern part of the island

  The town of Hana

 Waterfalls covering the side of a cliff

  Valleys on the side of the volcano

 The Haleakala crater

 The Haleakala crater

 Old traces of a mudslide

Apple

On Friday the 20th of February, Tana and I went to the Apple headquarters in Cupertino.


Apple is a big campus but most of it is closed to the public.  We went to Infinite Loop: the only open part of the campus.  you weren't allowed to take picture inside the campus.

 When we got there, we parked and I took a picture in front of the Apple sign which is surprisingly really small.

We waited in front of the lobby for the person that invited us (I am not allowed to say who she is).  When we went in she showed us where Steve Job's office used to be.  They kept it how it was before he died.  We went outside and there was a big field that they use for events, where people were playing frisbee.

There was an outdoor calzone station and inside the cafeteria there were burritos, pizza, superfood, smoothies, juices, tacos, gelato, cake, a salad bar, and many more things.  For lunch I had a pizza with buffalo mozzarella and red onions.  It was delicious.

After that we went to the company store to get some stuff.  There are some people that walk in and try to get a name tag.  Since there were no stickers on display we went to the counter and the person behind the counter gave us 8 free stickers.  After that we went home.

Facebook

Facebook is a Disneyland inspired campus with 10 restaurants.  They have a hamburger shack, a pizza spot 2 main cafeterias and many more restaurants.  There is an app that you download on your phone and each restaurant posts their menu on the app.  They even have a dessert bar.  Every restaurant is free.  I ate mac&cheese with truffle oil, chips, pizza, fries covered with cheese,  bread, ham and I drank Coke.  For dessert I had tiramisu and frozen yogurt.

They have a real arcade with Japanese video games that still say the price in Japanese Yen.  The main area is Hacker Square where there is a crane holding up a bench that was moved from the old to the new campus and on the floor of hacker square there are big letters that spell ''HACK''.  The floors and the ceilings of all the buildings are unfinished to show that Facebook will never be finished and they will always be improving.  They even have valet parking right outside the lobby in the parking lot.  At the entrance there is a big thumbs up sign and on the back of the sign it still says Sun Microsystems because Facebook used to be the Sun Microsystems campus and they just flipped around the sign.  They also had a barber, a dentist, a spa and the swag store.  Instagram's offices were inside Facebook and we got to see them as well.

My lunch at Facebook (before I got the pizza)

The back of the Facebook sign

The front of the Facebook sign

A wall inside of Facebook

                                      The crane holding up the bench at the middle of Hacker Square

  

                                                        A photo booth inside Instagram

Twitter

Twitter is a big building on Market street.  On the bottom floor they are building a market with restaurants. There is also a public gym on the second floor.  They also have a roof top deck where you can play games look at the street eat and hang out.

They have a cafeteria on 4 floors.  The main cafeteria is on the ninth floor.  They also have cafeterias on the fifth, sixth, ninth and tenth floor.  They have small plates and good drinks.  I ate cheeseburger pizza, amazing fish & chips, tater tots covered in chili, muscles, french onion soup, popcorn, and fries.

They also have snack bars, a smoothie bar, multiple game rooms and you can't even use the elevators without a badge.

I hope you liked my blog post about Twitter, even though it was really short but I really hope you liked it.

Pixar

Pixar is an enclosed campus with a swimming pool and 20 bars and a huge fireplace. They had 1 cafeteria and 1 cafe.  In the cafeteria you have to pay but they have amazing pizza, soup and, ravioli.  At Pixar they also have a art gallery from the creator of pixar.  To get there we drove across the Bay Bridge to Emeryville.

Google

                                                The google stage in the cafeteria

                                                      The yard by the visitor center

                                                Foosball in the game room

Google is a sprawling campus 45 minutes from San Francisco right off the highway.  It is a group of buildings. There are also random buildings that aren't even Google and there are even houses.  Google has multiple cafeterias and the main one is in the Googleplex.  There is also a gift shop that sells various things but mostly shirts.  While we were visiting we played fuse ball and we visited the offices.

OUR FREE THE CHILDREN RUN

On Monday may 12 2014 our school organized a run to raise money to build schools in poor countries.
They made a circuit to run around in at Little Rec in Golden Gate Park.  For about a month we had to find sponsors and they paid us a certain amount of money per lap.  We had 12 minutes to run as many laps possible around the circuit.  

In the center of the circuit there was ice cold water.  Whenever you wanted you could stop and drink while you ran.

I had 3 sponsors and they each gave me $1.00 per lap.  I did 10 laps so I got $30.00.