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.
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.
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.
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.
Fish Eye
Bret got a fish eye a few months ago... so you can expect more pics like this in future posts.
Weekend Warriors
After a long week, came the WEEKEND. Bret and I have started treating weekends like holidays. We eat whatever we want and act like we have nothing important to do. This saturday I woke up to this...
Then on to breakfast...
Then up to Pt. Reyes for hiking, swimming, rope swinging, and trail mix. The trail got kind of long, hence our faces in some of the pics...
The only other place in the whole world that I would have rather been was at family camp.
Oh and for those of you wondering what I now do for my real person job, I work for a non-profit children's mental health agency. Basically, it is an organization that gets hired by different counties in the bay area to provide foster care, residential treatment services, community wrap around programs, and counseling for children with mental illness. Before you start thinking that I'm a great person, I don't actually do any of the things listed, I just organize it all for the do-gooders.
Then on to breakfast...
Then up to Pt. Reyes for hiking, swimming, rope swinging, and trail mix. The trail got kind of long, hence our faces in some of the pics...
The only other place in the whole world that I would have rather been was at family camp.
Oh and for those of you wondering what I now do for my real person job, I work for a non-profit children's mental health agency. Basically, it is an organization that gets hired by different counties in the bay area to provide foster care, residential treatment services, community wrap around programs, and counseling for children with mental illness. Before you start thinking that I'm a great person, I don't actually do any of the things listed, I just organize it all for the do-gooders.
Words of Wisdom
Advice from a working professional:
Don't eat cheetos while handling important documents
Don't eat cheetos while handling important documents
One World, One Dream
I wish during the Olympics there were hour segments of montages. I love Olympic montages more than anything else on television. Bret and I watched all of the countries come in in the opening ceremonies last night and every single time one came out we shouted questions at the TV, "Where is Nauru, that's a country?", "Sailing is in the Olympics?", "How is that kid standing next to Yao Ming nine years old?", "I have NEVER heard of Lesotho", "What is whitewater?" etc. etc.
I feel pretty inspired to become an Olympian, to bad I'm not 4yrs old and can start training.
I feel pretty inspired to become an Olympian, to bad I'm not 4yrs old and can start training.
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