great weekend.

This weekend was awesome. We went to California to visit. We started out with a late night Chess game at my brother’s place Thursday night. Friday we had breakfast with my mom and brother at Stacks. We stopped by to say hi at my old office, HPS Architects.

After having sangria in the sun at Cascals we headed up to Berkeley, CA. We fit 6 people in the car. One of us was in the back of the car they had to lay down; saving on gas for the hour ride up there.

When we got to Berkeley we went to the East Bay Vivarium; where we picked out our new friend, a pet tortoise. He is so little.

After visiting all the reptiles at the vivarium we had pizza at Zachary’s also in Berkeley. The best pizza in the West that I have had. YUM!

That next day we got some tacos at Jack in the Box and In & Out Burgers. Two things I can’t get here in the mountains. There was a picnic with great food and drinks & at the end of the night we played poker. This guy, Ted, that my brother works with is quite good at poker. He seems to be good at everything he puts his mind to. Like the race he did this spring in Africa across the dessert, and got 16th out of 800 some people. I got to play him heads up, it wasn’t easy but I beat him. Love poker.

The next morning, Sunday, We headed up the in the hills to do Muddy Buddy. What a race. The first leg that I biked, Curtis ran, was pretty steep up hill for over a half mile. That was pretty intense for muddy buddy. The rest of the course was rolling hills. The whole race was 6 miles. I am not much of a runner, so this was killer for my legs. We did well about that top third in our category. It was fun. The Lero’s were there racing with us. They did really well too. They were in the top half. Muddy indeed.

My other friend Tyson and his buddy Mark rocked the course and got 22 out of everyone; as well as 11th in there category. Nice. Later that day we went to the beach and jumped in the waves and then took a nap on the sand. Monday my dad took us golfing on his new golf course. It was a beautiful course, and fairly easy. My parents did really well and are thinking about getting into the sport. YAY.

As we were leaving I left my purse in my brother’s car, and right now he doesn’t have a cell phone. Thus, I don’t have my purse. But what a great weekend. We had so much fun.