San Jose and Santa Cruz trip

Yesterday, an intern from work and myself, we went to San Jose and Santa Cruz. We first went to the San Jose flea market. Oh man, no wonder why they call it the world's largest flea market, it was huge! It reminded me of being in one of those flea markets in Hong Kong except bigger and not so narrow. Here are some pictures of the flea market.

This is the entrance to the flea market.



Look at the inside of the flea market



After having lunch at the flea market, we went to the San Jose Tech museum of Innovation. It was so hot that day, it reached past the 100 farenheit mark, so it was really nice to enjoy air conditioning in the car and in the museum!

Here is the entrance to the Tech museum



The Tech museum has three levels, it didn't seem as big compared to the Ontario Science Center in Toronto. I podcasted the Tech museum with my iPod of some of the more interesting exhibits. I did a virtual armwrestle with another person who was in another state (I actually physically armwrestled with a metal hand where the strength of the force is dependent on the opponent on the other hand pushing), and I won! Another interesting exhibit was the view from space, where there was a 3D globe which is a screen that displays a 3D image. In fact, the museum guy explained that the 3D image on the 3D globe is just an illusion, it takes 4 projectors to shine a quarter of the image, and combining all them together gives the illusion of a 3D image. Nonetheless, it was cool, he showed the pictures of the planets. One of the pictures I took of the planets is shown below.



We also went to Santa Cruz and walked along the Santa Cruz boardwalk. The weather was much cooler and more comfortable in Santa Cruz and it didn't feel very hot. There were lots of people on the Santa Cruz boardwalk.

All these and other pictures are on the Flickr web site.