Sunol

We went to Sunol Regional Park, I'm not really sure where it is or if it could even be considered a hike, but it was sunny and that's all that matters. Our weekends consist of three things, trying to spend time in the sun, eating donuts, and talking about the barn that we'll one day live in and all the logistics of it. They usually consist of other things that we have to do because we are adults, but they're not nearly as fun to think about as sunshine, donuts, and barns.

RIP Talay 2

I realize that there are kids in a 5 mile radius of my house that probably go to bed hungry and there are people that live in war zones and people who have recently lost their homes because of natural disasters, but as vain as I sound, I can't help but mourn the lose of my beloved bike.

I thought my "get things stolen from me" quota was full for this year, but it wasn't. Some poor, unfortunate soul decided my bike was too desirous and didn't realize that I work full time to afford a few luxuries in life, like a beautiful schwinn, and they jacked my chain and stole my bike.

*two of the pictures above are actually of Talay 1, which was replaced by Talay 2, two years ago.

Now We Can All Feel Jealous

Below are pictures of Bret's commute. Amazing.

Have you ever seen break lights? That's my commute. You don't need pictures, just imagine me in the mazda nissan, sitting in traffic in the east bay.

I'm Back

Me being tired translates to me not posting. But I'm awake now, and I'll be posting. Sorry for the bad lighting in the pics, I'm occupied during daylight hours. We found this great mirror (correction, bret found this great mirror) at a garage sale and anything with a new coat of shiney, red paint makes a world of difference.

Full Disclosure

The locket I wear around my neck might not be real gold and it might have hot glue instead of a picture inside of it.

Nothing like a 4 year old begging to wash your car

to see more pictures of our weekend with hailey doodlebop click HERE

thomas time

I've had the same best friend for 22 years, 10 months and 2 days (or since the day I was born). Well 23 years ago today she was born. I think if we stopped speaking today and in 45 years someone asked me who my best friend was, I'd say Monica. Happy Birthday MonBon. Go get that 20 piece chicken nugget.

Mr. and Mrs. Columbus

A couple of weekends ago Bret and I had the official kick off to Year of the Explorer. We decided to explore parts of Northern Ca that we had never been to before. The trip started by driving up the coast. Most of the trip went like this...

Whit: Whoa those are huge sand dunes
Bret: WHOA
Whit: Want to stop and go jump down them
Bret: Yes...


That conversation took place a lot and usually started with "whoa that looks weird..." .

We kayaked, biked, and hiked our way through tons of little towns filled with weird things that dot the Northern area. Our favorite town was Healdsburg that had the best pastries and pie ever. We will be returning there shortly. Healdsburg is also a part of wine country, so we biked through 20 miles of the most beautiful vineyards. I think anyone that lives in the area should go take a peek up there, it is spectacular. We also went to Guerneville, which has to be the wierdest place, this is the conversation that took place:

Whitney: "Where are all of those people going?"
Bret: "Want to go follow them..."

and so we did and sure enough they were ALL going to a river that had a small beach-I use the word beach lightly, it was a beach in the sense that it touched the water but it was all rocks and dirt, which didn't stop hundreds of people in acting like it was hawaii. So we acted like it was hawaii too and put down our towels and hung out at the beach. Here are some pics of the explore-cation.

Year of the...

Well, as of today, Year of the Granola is complete. It was quite a year and I think Bret and I both found our inner granola. We never got into vegan food (I had one of their cookies, and it was awful), we never grew dreads, we never did drugs, and we never grew our own organic crops. However, I still feel the year was a success. We hiked, we climbed, we camped, we drank our water from nalgene bottles, bret has been playing a banjo, we ate 52lbs of trail mix (this is a true number, derived from an actual mathematical equation I did), and we spent a good amount of time in Berkeley which is like granola people mecca. We even read some granola books (the making of cliff bar, into the wild, etc. etc) and ate a lot of vegetable dishes (veggie chowder, veggie lasagna, and broccoli in our mac n' cheese). Mother nature was good to us this year. Karma wasn't, but we've survived.



Today is our anniversary and so we left Alameda to celebrate our new theme.... Year of the Exploration. We went on an explorcation, the only type of vacations we will be taking this year, vacations to unknown destinations, places neither of us have been.

We will be doing a lot of exploring this year, exploring new food options (Ethiopian, Creole, Himalayan), exploring possible further education, exploring factories where they make things, exploring new haircuts, exploring Russian literature, pretty much getting into things that we know nothing about. We'll read books about explorers and explore new types of music. I think you get the point. If you have any good ideas of things we should be exploring, let me know. Oh and I will post more about our explore-cation and all of the exploring that went on.