I know you all want to read about my whale watching adventure today but first of all I make you read through the other things happened this week as they all have been nice.
Obviously the week started on monday. We all met to watch “How I met your mother” together. After this was finished we were watching some other series too. A nice and easy start into a promising week.
On Tuesday we were watching “Silverlining, The playbook” in the cinemas. The movie was very nice and accompanied by good music. Sometimes it was hard for me to follow the story. However I think the movie “The intouchable” which is in a similiar categorie is a lil better.
For our wednesdays in California we agreed on a BBQ night. This week was the first official BBQ night where everyone brings his own meat and drinks. The host is providing a salad and bread too. For desert we bbqed some chocolate stuffed bananas. This has to be improved as the chocolate was partly burned and the banana tasted mostly like smoke. However it was a very nice get together! I used my inline skates to get there from work which is an approx 8 mile distance.
Another adventure was launched on Thursday when 3 interns and I were meeting in Ventura at the Surfers Point to try some surfing. The waves were just too large and too close to each other for a nice start in my personal surfing season. Thanks to the wet suit my stay in the cold ocean was a pleasure!
Friday night we have spent in the Roof Top Bar at the “Standard Hotel”. The bar is equipped with a beer garden serving german beer and bavarian food for horrent prices, a swimming pool, water beds in red bowls and lounge couches. We tried a bit of everything and didn’t even skip the pool. A luxury evening at an exquisite location! Remarkable!
The daylight on saturday was utilized with a nice hike through the mountains of Ojai. The weather was sunny and the temperature lowered through the wind to an acceptable hiking temperature. Landscape was not as divers as in other parts of the planet but still nice. To treat us for this exhausting 2.5 hour hike we had a BBQ at an interns place. After dinner we went in an outdoor yakuzi for approx 3.5 hours until midnight. So nice and warm 
After this long and extensive bath we decided to have some desert. It was biscuit with chocolate and molten marshmallow. Yum!
Thanks to this nice eveing mates!
Now for the whale watching today. We have been damn lucky . Not just that we have started our tour with spotting fin whales the second largest sea creatures. Later on the way to anacapa islands we saw some seals and pelicans. Already on the way back to our port, when everyone was already a bit upset because we didn’t see anything else, a large group of dolphins popped out of the sea in front of our boat. It looked like the dolphins were playing with the boat for a while before we finally started the last stage back to our port. Just in front of Oxnard, when noone expected to spot gray whales anymore, two massive fins were coming out of the water just three quarter of a mile away from our boat. The captain confirmed that these are the fins of a gray whale. We have been very lucky on our trip today!
The boat ride made us all hungry so we went to Souplantation for dinner. Its like one time salad buffet and all you can eat italian dishes. Man the salad buffet was incredibly large and tasty!
Work times were also fabolous! I implemented some progress bars to see the progress of heavy tasks run in threads. I also tried to fine tune the download to testbench function to avoid downloading of incomplete test parameters. For that I invented an object which contains all of the information for one test – now it should be possible to ask the object if an download is possible.
Now you all wait for the pictures, don’t you? I just don’t have them. I’ll upload them in the beginning of next week. Help yourself with the rss-feed and stay up to date!
