Wow… Google is awesome! the first thing that hits you when you walk into the ‘Googleplex’ is how colorful the place is, everything is Red Green Blue and Yellow from the guest name badges to the bikes. We were visiting one of our friends, Cory, (He works on chrome) who checked us in at a computer that printed out name badges for us. We then made a beeline for the cafeteria, which was full of super tasty food! There was food from at least 10 different countries and I genuinely struggled to decide what to try.

After eating we explored the main campus where they have everything from a giant dinosaur to places dedicated to playing guitar hero. There are also loads of micro kitchens full of more tasty food and drinks (there seems to be a running theme here, I guess a well-fed googler is a hard-working googler). The kitchens even have barista style espresso machines! – NASA, take note!

We then grabbed google bikes (which are awesome) and headed to the android garden. This is where they keep all of the different android statues; every time google releases a new version of android they make new logo. All of the android OS’s are named after candy and so the statues consist of an android made of candy (like ice cream sandwich) or holding candy (lollipop). We took pictures with all of them before we headed to one of the other buildings to play time splitters in one of googles free arcades.

Unfortunately we didn’t get to see any google secrets, but we did get to see how googlers spend the time when they’re not working- I just need to get NASA to put free espresso machines everywhere! Google just became the landlords for the Ames Research Park, so fingers crossed for free google food at NASA.