Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Step 1: Cut a hole in a box

Eli and I drove to Woodside last week to scope out a potential wedding venue. Some things we were not expecting:

1. Most places only give tours during the business hours of M-F 9am to 5pm. Hey, those are our business hours too.
2. The places with the best views know they have the best views and only do full-day events on weekends... which means if you want to have a small outdoor ceremony somewhere, you have to rent the sucker for 8 full hours.

Passing by a massive ranch in Woodside where some guy was hitting golf balls into a field, we started mulling over that classic question made infamous by Office Space: if money weren't an issue, what would we do all day with our time? We both decided that we would choose to read and study languages and play the piano... and then travel and read some more.

But if we ever do strike it rich, it looks like we're in luck on the language front: the folks who created the excellent ChinesePod service have launched SpanishSense... hope they keep it up! Too bad I won't have much of a commute starting next month. ;-)

3 comments:

Unknown said...

does this mean you're definitely having a bay area wedding? i guess that works for me :-)

Sheena said...

Come on, you know you want an excuse to come back out here for a visit :)

TeenieTravels said...

...and, again, i guess i would have known you were getting married if i had read this earlier...

you know how you're not supposed to say congratulations to the bride-to-be? do you know what you're supposed to say instead? i've always wondered.