Space Time: Out of This World!

So, when William got his official wrist bands for the Google Christmas Party, we were a little confused. They each said "Space Time!" on them. William thought that they might have just wanted to have something random so that no one could sneak in, but it actually turned out to be "Out of This World!" Yup, it was a SPACE themed party. And done with true Google flair. It was at Shoreline Amphitheater in this giant tent. When you walked into the tent, you were welcomed with this sign.

And this room is just one of the passageways connecting you to the 3 main rooms. Reminds me a bit of Alice in Wonderland with those hanging numbers.

The special photo green screen to place us on the moon, of course posting the Google flag.

The RED room. One of the 3 giant rooms was the red room. Hopefully, this photo gives you a glimpse of the size of the space :-)

One of the stations they had was this new age massage, with these ladies dressed up in weird costumes banging on gongs. I admit- it was fairly bizzare. We definitely did NOT try it.

Even the bar tenders were decked out with alien antennae.

They even had some of these neon glow necklaces! I thought these were the coolest when I was a kid- and I have to admit, they still are pretty fun, just as long as they are FREE. William let me wear his. What a nice husband.

See that giant globe behind me above? It actually opens up to reveal the DJ. It was slightly reminiscent of when U2 came out of the giant lemon at the PopMart Tour- but that was 5000 times cooler.

So, they had these virtual reality simulators and so William REALLY wanted to try it. An hour later, we finally got our ride on the space rollercoaster. We have photos of us experiencing the VR- we do look kind of look like we are flying a space craft- kind of sort of?

And there was FREE food and drinks- even sodas for us- and each room had different types of food. For the red room, it was italian, spanish tapas, chocolate mousse chocolate cups and creme brulee. The creme brulee wasn't very good though- but the rest was good.

Then, onto my favorite room- the BLUE EARTH room (as I call it). They had all these different globe shapes on the wall and they would flash scenes of the earth, or random light patterns in each one. Here's some of the cool light patterns

They even had fiber-optic centerpieces!

They had a live band and tons of people on the dance floor.

Here are a few different shots from several places in the room

But, my favorite part of the room was the old-school video arcade games! They had all of the classic space themed (or somewhat related) games like Centipede. We played Star Trek Pinball. Oh, and it was free to play them too.

William, intent on improving over my score (not hard to do)

This was the hallway joining the 3 rooms. Don't I kind of look like I'm from the Twilight Zone/

We wish this is us, but they are William's co-workers. Romance can happen, even in space.

The final room was the "quiet room" with no music. It was a 1950s retro themed and had giant screens on the walls and hanging from the ceiling, showing the really cheesy and lame early space flicks.

I was glad that not everything was "spaced themed". I didn't want to be eating "astronaut ice cream" and the other freeze dried foods, nor using a space toilet. All and all, it was one of the BEST Holiday Christmas parties I've EVER been to! The only thing that comes close is when I went to my old roommate from Boston, Sarah Roquiero (now DeTore), work party that was on the 50th floor of the Prudential Center overlooking Boston. They had little monuments of Boston all around that you could go MINIATURE golfing at! And then, tons of great food, besides the stunning view of the city. This was a great party too- mostly because Sarah and I had so much fun miniature golfing.

Anyways, the Google party was a great BLAST-OFF for the holiday season!