I been GOOGLED

So a handful of weeks ago Bianca was fortuitous enough to meet a Lebanese gentleman named Rami at an IAESTE function. Rami was doing a 4 month internship at the Zurich Google office. One thing led to another and two weeks ago the three Bergsters headed into zurich on a friday night to check out the mystery that is a google head office.

There was a bit of TGIF (thank Google it's friday) celebration going on when we arrived so we were presented with a lovely glass of white wine and schmoozed with some of the employees. Needless to say it was lovely.

The entrance of the private part of the building opened right onto a cafeteria with a giant metal slide coming down from the second floor. more about that later..... Apparently all food is free at google. you come in and are given a menu, they have vegetarian, fish and a variety of other choices and you simply have to pick whatever sounds good.

while i was in the building I had:

1 tub of Cookies and Cream Ben and Jerry's Icecream
1 chocolate bar
1 iced coffee
1 cookie
1 sandwhich hand made by me.
2 handfuls of Haribou Gummy bears
1 glass of wine

There are 7 floors in the building and each is decorated with a distinct theme. Each floor also has a "micro kitchen" stocked with coffees, a giant espresso machine, ceral and milk, loaves of bread and cheese and ham, assorted snack, dried fruit, nuts, yogurt, ect. anything you could want you can pretty much find, though you may have to go to another floor to get it. each kitchen seemed to have slightly different things.
My favorite floor was the jungle floor. the micro kitchen was filled probably 70% with massive tropical greenery. There was also a particulary nice room on the top floor called the sky lounge.

We visited the in building gym, the massage room and the water lounge. The picture of me in the foam filled bath tube was in the water lounge. It consisted of a darkened room with a series of massage and lounge chairs. one whole wall was fish tanks and there were bird sounds playing faintly (soothingly?) in the background. helluva break room is all have to say.

We spent a couple hours wandering he building then headed back down to the second floor kitchen, nicely located next to the ROCKBAND ROOM complete with two projector screens for those tournaments you've gotta have. we played for another couple hours while snacking. played a little pool, a little foosball. all in all i don't know how anyone gets any work done. oh we also saw lots of pets.

after we left the premises Rami took us out for a drink at one of his favorite pubs. one of the best fridays i've had in a while.

Oh i also forgot to mention we went down a firepole.