Thursday morning, we headed out to Buck where my breakfast looked better without flash and Tom's massive meal was partly hidden by syrups as Jane had even more strawberries to the amusement of Tom Kessler who then rode off on his motorcycle but not before posing with Jane and me though neither of us got to try on the helmet. The next stop was Sand Hill Road where we forgot to record Geoff Yang. Our final stop of the day was at Google where I was able to capture the CEO with the other founder, Sergei Brin and so now have a complete photo album of the place.

Back at the hotel, Jacobo arrived with the prototypes and was excited about his new bowling shirt as he called ChefRob to arrange for dinner. En route to our walk, we stopped in Woodside at Roberts Market where she served the food, she took our money (my ribs still are tender) and he bagged it so that I could eat my chile relleno Jane could have her pasta and Jacobo could have his bread and juice before we began our climb up to Redwood Flat and beyond where the conquering heroes posed at the peak though one of them seemed in a hurry to head to the memorial bench before we recorded our highest elevation and started down to Salamander Flats before finding the path down to our base camp. On our descent, we came across a photo op, so I climbed back up as Jacobo captured me in the tree and then starting and completing the complex maneuvers of my descent much to the relief of Jane who didn't realize what came next.

Once back on terra firma, we headed off to see ChefRob who posed in his PuCS hat and then admired his shirt while preparing for the machinist bowling team photo with Jacobo. The shop tour highlighted the lathe and mill along with the sample pennies used for precisions tooling. The lathe controls and sorted parts wildly impressed me as did the original prototypes including the one that cut their fingers even with the flash off for a better view. Jacobo showed his new part which will eventually be jewelry and ChefRob showed his micrometers with their meters accurate to thousandths of an inch. Then, we were ready for dinner at the El Paso Cafe which needed a pitcher of beer to get Jane and Rob ready for the bowling team photo as Bonnie and I watched (and played the role of important people (x2)). The chips and salsa helped Jacobo empty the pitcher as the main courses came for the others. I can't remember what they ate, but my vegetarian burrito was excellent if not colorful.