Leanne is on a rotation in San Jose, CA right in the heart of Silicon Valley. San Jose is so beautiful and lively! We walked around the downtown San Jose area where there were tons of fun restaurants and alleys with incredible street art. In Japantown there were grocery stores filled with authentic Japanese groceries that brought me right back to Tokyo!

Perhaps the most fun part of San Jose though was the huge mall and Santana Row. First, the huge mall is filled with some of the ritziest stores I’ve seen. Gucci, Louis Vuitton, etc. Some of the funnest stores ever like Lego, Disney, and Uniqlo. And also, some of the best restaurants ever like this amazing ramen place we went to and, one of my favorites, The Cheesecake Factory.

Santana Row is right next to the mall and is a street filled with restaurants and shops. Leanne loved the taro bubble tea she got there and I loved seeing a store just filled with products from tech startups! Universal translator like on Star Trek? Check. Projector that projects an Android tablet onto any surface that you can actually interact with so you feel like you’re in Minority Report? Yep they had that too! We were definitely in Silicon Valley!