So, the weekend of January 6-8th has completely slipped away. But I'm sure it was fun. We probably hung out, played tennis, and had a blast.
The next weekend, we went hiking with one of the Biodesign Fellows from Singapore. His name is Tze (pronounced "zee"... at least by me...). We went for a nice couple-mile hike up on the hills overlooking the Bay. It was alot of fun. That was the most noteworthy happening of that weekend. :)
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| Tze and Me |
On to January 20-22... My brother, dad, and a friend flew out for this weekend and the four of us headed up to Tahoe. Now, Tahoe has been having a dismal winter as far as snow was going. They didn't get snow between Thanksgiving and the weekend we went. The snow forecasts were hitting up near 4-6 FEET over the long weekend! Needless to say, we were stoked! And a little scared about driving over the mountains in the snow to get there. Luckily, it was just raining when we got there. And by "raining", I mean "RAINING CATS AND DOGS". The whole three hours from Sacramento to Tahoe. It was nearly a white-out at times with the amount of rain. But, Saturday morning greeted us with a good 1.5 feet of snow and more coming down by the minute. The buses had chains on to get around. It was amazing!
We snowboarded Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Another storm rolled through on Sunday night and dropped another 2 feet, so we had a fantastic day on Monday. We got to the lift 30 minutes before it opened to make sure we were close to the front of the line. And I say "close" to the front of the line because we were probably 10th in line at that point. Yeah. But it was so worth it. The first run with two feet of snow was amazing!
Here are a random sampling of pictures from the time.
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| The Three Amigos headed up the Gondola on Sunday morning |
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| Bluebird sky on Sunday morning |
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| Jon and Phil just being themselves... Heavy snow showers by Sunday afternoon... |
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| Jon was pretty proud of his "ice-beard" |
Anyway, on to the next weekend (Jan 27-29). Bridget had the weekend off of nannying, so we headed down to Morro Bay / San Luis Obispo area for a weekend away. We headed down Saturday morning and went hiking for a few hours right away. We hiked a bit off the beaten path - went a few miles out of town and hiked up these hills and into a military establishment. The trail was supposed to end at the beach, but we ran out of time to get there and back. And we didn't want to get stuck out there with the sun down. Anyway, here are a few pictures from that hike.
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| Spectacular Coastline 1 |
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| Spectacular Coastline 2 |
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| Bridget drinking all of the water in the Camelback... |
We had a nice chill Sunday. We went down to the beach and pitched a picnic blanket and read and chatted for a few hours. The sun was shining and the breeze was rolling in off the water. But they were in the perfect balance such that anything in the sun was warm, but not too hot, and anything in the shade was nice and cool. It was great!
After hanging out for awhile, we grabbed lunch at one of the hometown icon clam chowder shops. The line was out the door and around the corner for a solid hour. I got a bread bowl of clam chowder and it was sooo worth the wait. After lunch, we walked down the boardwalk and watched the surfers and fisherpeople for a little while. And then had a nice relaxing drive home.
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| Driving through the rollings hills |
So, moving right along into February! Weekend of February 3rd-5th. The coolest part of this weekend was going to the San Francisco Academy of Sciences on Sunday. We went with Jagdish, one of the Stanford-India Biodesign Fellows, and our friend John. We went right after church and got there about half an hour early. And the line was literally half a mile long already! It was insane! By the time we finally got in, it was half an hour after it had opened! But the museum was great! We saw a "movie" in the planetarium, walked through a rainforest (felt like summer in Illinois!), and got an underside view of the aquarium from the tunnels the have underneath. And it was all free! It was alot of fun.
Then, the disappointing part. We heard that a bunch of people get together and play ultimate frisbee on Sunday afternoons on campus. I was so excited to play, until my friend told me that they weren't playing because of the Super Bowl. So, I was thinking that would happen, but was reassured on Friday that the game was on. But, alas, it didn't happen. So, Bridget and I went home and watched a little bit of the end of the Super Bowl. And then had some friends over for dinner, which was alot of fun.
On to weekend of February 10th-12th. The coolest part of the weekend was hiking on Saturday with an old friend Troy and his friend Josh. I worked for Troy at Biomet during my undergrad and we've stayed good friends since then. Anyway, he and Josh were in San Francisco for a conference and needed to get out and do something active. So, Bridget and I picked them up on Saturday morning and went for a nice 8-mile hike in the Marin Headlands (north of San Francisco). Here are a few pics, although Troy took the best pictures hands-down.
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| Waves rolling onto the beach |
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| Clouds shrouding the hills behind the accent of this cool flower |
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| The three amigos |
Alrighty... February 17th-19th... We went hiking with an old friend from Purdue up in the Santa Cruz hills. The trail was supposed to take 1.5 hours and we did it in 20 minutes. Well, we may have missed the trail, but we just made our own trail after that and hiked around for almost two hours. Then had Chipotle for lunch. I'm a big fan of Chipotle. :) That was Saturday. On Sunday, we went to church and then had lunch at a friend's new house. I helped with some remodeling and then three of us went and played ultimate. Which was amazing (again)! Repeat with the soreness though... No pictures, unfortunately...
And then this past weekend. We actually had a nice chill Saturday and didn't do much of anything until playing tennis and going to a bonfire with a bunch of friends from church. The bonfire was great. Especially since it was warm enough in February to chill out and make S'Mores. And there weren't any mosquitos! Then today we went to church, ran some errands, and played ultimate. It was pretty competitive today, but was a blast. There's nothing really like chasing a little disk around at full speed for 2.5 hours. And the weather was the perfect 55 and sunny with a little breeze. Oh yeah... :)
So, that's the quickest update ever. Hope you made it through without falling asleep (no worries if you did... I'm battling the heavy eyelids and I'm trying to write it!).
Until the next time I get enough energy to crank out an update!
Jeremy
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