Pilgrimage to Ludicorp

Bjorn: So Stoked
Originally uploaded by yeahboone.

Yesterday was MRD and it was rad. Boone has a blog post about it. Afterwards we went out and hit up Langley with the guys. Today was really fun though. Earlier this week, Boone and I were talking about how much we love Flickr (the photo sharing website I use). We started to talk about how the company that does it, Ludicorp, is in Vancouver. We suddenly go the idea to go and try and find their office. We instantly wanted to drop everything and go. But we resisted and set our trip for Friday morning.
My roommate has been making fun of me a lot lately for how much time I spend on Flickr. I might even rival my brother in his World of Warcraft playing time. Well anyways, I was telling him about how excited I was for our trip to Ludicorp and he said it was like a pilgrimage. I thought that was funny, a little idolatrous, but still funny.
So Friday morning Boone, his girlfriend Jacqi and I headed out for our journey. Boone and I both had our cameras in our hands and were taking pictures of everything. Poor Jacqi had to put up with our giddiness and the embarrassment of being with the biggest tourists ever. She was a good sport, and good to have along to keep Boone and me on track. Otherwise, we might have done something we would regret.
We found the building and walked right in and rode up the elevator. We had no idea what to expect. We had never done anything like this before. We found the door and just looked at it for a while and took pictures. We lost Jacqi. She was getting embarrassed again and had ridden the elevator down and up again. We came to the decision that we should ring the doorbell. I mean what is the worst that could happen? "Well, what are we going to say?" Boone just readied his camera and I started laughing.
The door opened. Boone shot. And we scarred the living daylights out of the guy who opened it (Cal). Then we kind of awkwardly told him why we were there and he let us in. Our eyes started to gaze around at every nook and cranny of the room, taking it all in as quickly as possible, snapping a picture whenever we remembered to. Well, we tried to explain what we were doing there, and everyone seemed a little frazzled. We really didn't have anything planned. We had only thought up to getting in the door. So we did the only thing we could do, took pictures of each other (Cal's pic of me, my pic of Cal). We told them how much we loved Flickr (or tried to) and tried to get them to tell us their top-secret info. They keep a tight ship. They were good sports though and a fun bunch, considering they had these giddy fan boys (and girl) bust in on them. Looking back we probably could have planned it better, like bringing offerings of gratitude. I guess you learn from your mistakes. It was fun though. And now I am just that much more stoked about Flickr.
When we got back to school I went to class for an hour and then drove back to Vancouver for Youth Extreme. We went to the pool this week and I got to jump of the huge diving platforms again. It was rad. Boone also has a good entry about our trip if you want a different perspective. Much thanks to the Flickr crew for being so nice and for making such a sweet product.