Milpitas and San Jose

I had a very good time in California. We only visited Northern California around the Bay area though. First, we went to San Jose. It was pretty cool and there were a lot of Chinese restaurants. We stayed in the Embassy Suites near Milpitas. The hotel was pretty cool as well. There was an atrium and it had a pool with living fish. There was also bamboo in the atrium. The coolest part was the glass elevators. They stuck out from the wall so you could see who was in the other one. Also, there were elevators on both sides of the hotel so you could see who was in the other ones as well. My brother and I played "Elevator Tag" where you try to tag the other person but you can go down elevators and stuff.
We spent some time in the Milpitas Library. It had moved into a new building and it was way bigger. We applied for library cards, got them, and got a whole bunch of books to read. The new library was bigger, with more computers and shelves. It even had a second floor. It was really busy. We could barely find a parking space in the parking lot.The two coolest thing is San Jose were the "Christmas in the Park" and the Tech Museum. The Christmas in the Park was a small section in downtown San Jose with decorations and displays celebrating Christmas. The best part was that all the displays were moving. The people in it were moving and they were dancing and stuff like that. I liked the Gingerbread house or the Santa Railroad Train the most. The following pics are of the Gingerbread House, Santa Railroad, Ornament mine, and Caribbean Christmas displays. All of them could move.

The Tech Museum was also really cool. There was a ball machine outside. It was where there was a conveyor belt and it brought up some balls to the really top of the machine and from there, the ball rolled on the tracks and hit all sorts of obstacles. Sometimes, it would go through some chimes or bounce off a wood block. When we got inside, we didn't need to pay because we had a membership. there was a second story and we went there first. It had an alphabet machine that could write your name with alphabet blocks. The sign said that the robot remembers the exact location of all the blocks. There was also this other machine nearby that drew you. I liked the alphabet machine better because the drawing machine made me look like a gorilla. I also saw this weird game where you have to get the machine to the edge of the cliff without going over. Downstairs, there was an invention lab and other exhibits. There were the lightbulbs that were powered by the bikes and a lot of other green things.