Weekend Adventures

Grant at 8:30 on Sunday morning starting his on call shift at the hospital.Grant, 6 days later, hiking at Mt. Diablo State Park, thankful that it is the weekend again. Grant and I are now relaxing at home, side by side on the couch with our laptops going. We're unwinding from our packed Saturday (packed by choice). I checked my blogs. Did you notice that Grant had a new post? I didn't know until a friend told me about it this evening. We watched the latest episode of After World. We watched the new Strong Bad email. Now it is time to update my blog! While I'm typing this, he is trying to distract me with you tube videos.

Some of my favorite numbers are 1, 2, 4, 27, 36, 225, 169, and 196. Of those, 36 is my favorite. But 27 is also good. One of my friends just turned 27 this week, so Grant and I went to his B-Day party. Being that I wake up early for work and then I like to go to bed early, we were part of the early crowd at the party. We knew that we had a packed Saturday ahead of us, so we happily were in bed by 11pm.

We woke up just after 7am to eat breakfast. Yes, we woke up by 7am on a weekend just to eat breakfast, early. We did this in hopes that our breakfast would be digested by the time my 9am yoga class started. Grant decided that he wanted to try out my yoga class, so he needed to get up early also and eat breakfast in hopes of good digestion in time. After the 2 hour class we were very hungry again. So we went home and finished leftovers from 4 different meals created during the week.

Next stop was the farmer's market. Grant and I split up momentarily for me to walk to the bank and get some cash. The farmer's don't tend to take credit cards. Grant ended up following me to the ATM but I didn't realize it. He should have told me before we split up that he was going to change his mind after us separating and follow me. Because I wasn't looking for him. He told me after that he was talking to a friend of ours on the sidewalk a few storefronts down from the ATM towards the farmer's market and that I walked right past him with great focus and determination. It makes perfect sense to me. I wasn't looking for him until I got back to the farmer's market. And that's where he found me. As planned.

After picking out our vegetables, we walked back to our car (it is unusual for us to drive to the market- we usually walk or ride our bikes but today we were on a special outing together). We put our veggies in the cooler with the cheese that we packed as a snack to go with the crackers, raisins, and sun dried tomatoes, which we had also packed as a snack. We brought a cooler because we hoped to keep the veggies cool while we were on our outing. We entered the freeway and went through a tunnel that lead to the other side of the hills that separate us from the rest of CA (I hardly ever go to the other side of the hills... ever! But we were on a special outing). As soon as you peak out from the tunnel, on the other side of the hills, you can see it. It is round and rolling, but much taller than the other round and rolling things on the other side of the hills. This larger round land mass was Mt. Diablo. Poking out of the ground, reaching 3900 feet, it towers over all of the other hills. It took us about 25 minutes to get to the exit and another 15 minutes driving up curvy roads to the park's entrance. Soon after we parked the car at a pull off called, "rock city." The whole time in the car we were listening to a "This American Life" episode (one of our favorite radio shows).

We spent much time exploring rocks in rock city. Climbed up. Climbed down. Snacked. And I found this artifact. Does anyone know what this is and what it might be used for? Of course I know the answer. Why else would I think it was worthy of a picture? This is really just a test of my audience. Do not let me down audience!

After our trip to the mountain, we drove back to our side of the hills just in time for dinner with our good friends just before they went to a movie. The timing was perfect. Like it was meant to be. We ate at a thai restaurant that we had never been to before and it was pretty good. I had the usual: pad thai. After dinner, our friends went to their movie. We walked them to the theatre and then crossed the street to our car. We then drove about 2 miles down to road to a bar where there was a farewell party for another set of friends who are moving to Chicago. They are moving tomorrow. Their stuff already left. We shared a beer, caught up with some friends, said goodbye, and then made our way home .

This is my favorite graffiti on the rocks at rock city. If you have made it all the way to this point in the blog, you definitely deserve a big TY.