2009 Holiday Luncheon Pictures
Category: Blog Posts About Me
Dinner at Gayle’s House
Christina and I went to Gayle and Bill's house out in Forrestville, CA on Saturday. Christina was a good sport, and I still owe her big for walking in what turned out to be a downpour of rain on our hike. Their home backs up to miles and miles of woods so we hiked down to a stream and up to a lookout which was beautiful, but the rain prevented us from going any further....
Deacon Dave’s Chrstimas Lights
We went to Deacon Dave's Christmas Lights last night in Livermore which was amazing! In total this year he has 325,530 lights and I have never seen a residence decorate for Christmas to this extent. What is Casa del Pomba? Portuguese for "House of the Dove", this is the private residence of Deacon Dave Rezendes. On December 4th, 1982, Deacon Dave was ordained a Roman Catholic deacon. When he was ordained, he dedicated his home...
Thanksgiving 2009
San Francisco 11-14-09
We went to San Francisco yesterday and started things off right by going to Taylor's which has awesome burgers and sweet potato fries. We surprised our birthday boy at the Motown Madness musical. Motown isn't my favorite music in the world, but I mentioned before going in that as long as I'm not the one singing, I'm sure I'll enjoy it. Little did I know, almost halfway through the musical, they would pull me up...
Lake Merritt
Went to Lake Merritt this afternoon for a 3.4-mile walk, which was fun because the weather was beautiful today. After the walk, we went to Fenton's Ice Cream in Oakland because we couldn't possibly have a calorie deficit. We then walked down Piedmont Street and found Gaylord's Coffee, which was a funky coffee shop.