Showing posts with label alameda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alameda. Show all posts

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Weekend in town!

Always a good time to run up the beast...
First one since July 8th... which was 8 weekends ago.  Long overdue.  Phew.
Started off with a night at OMCA.  These guys rocked!  As you can see from this guy groovin'.


Had a nice Sat morning dad's crew run with Rob, Sam, and Kev (visiting from Seattle), the highlights being Rob booting at the top of the hill, and an owl sighting.

Hard to see egh?

Afterwards I took the kids to Dracena park with 505 upper.  And had lunch with them at Slicer.
Kevin... wishing he had a 750W motor between his legs.  
Lovin playing with the cartoon mode on my Sony


We cruised in (after a 5 min nap attempt) to the city to Jordy and Mary's housewarming.  Probably the nicest housewarming I've ever seen.


Quite the panoramic view...
Sun morning went on a ride to China Camp with Jack.  On the way there his bike fell off my bike rack... Argh... me no likey Thule...

Jack also ate it hard... 

Then I met up with Kimbo (who took the boys on the radwagon) and Hoefts at Crown Beach.





And after a few hours at the beach, we went to Faction for dinner.


The kids were stoked to have so many IPA options...
... actually, they were playing a game where everytime they made it in the hole...
They'd do a group hug.  I loved it.  
Dinner of champions...
Cheers!

Soon we were on the ferry from Alameda back to Oakland...














Thursday, November 5, 2015

Date Night in Alameda


   

We're very fortunate.  Fortunate to have two amazing boys that make us giggle every day.  Fortunate to live in such a beautiful place where fall is the warmest time of the year.  Fortunate that we have such close friends that we can trade babysitting nights, so we can enjoy a night out by ourselves.  And fortunate to have friends that live on the water that let us stay at their place while they are out of town, chill on the deck, sit in the hot tub, and explore Alameda.

Kimbo enjoying the island life.
Kayakers out and about...
After we settled in, we decided to go on a bike/uni ride (Kimbo rode her E-bike, I rode my uni)... first stop... at Crowne Beach...
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We rode on through the abandoned Navy base...
to our final destination... Faction Brewing...
they've got a killer view for sunset.
I'm sure 90% of folks here drive home drunk.  
Kimbo was watching the Auburn game at the same time...

on our drunken ride home, we stopped at Mama Papa Lithuania for a Lithuanian feast.... I call Borscht!

back at Casa de Jeff & Julie, we grabbed a glass of wine and hopped in their hot tub after a quick night paddle to wake me up. 
Next morning, we went out for a quick paddle.  Kimbo on Julie's SUP.  
I'm about to have breakfast....
Checking out Jeff & Julie's e-bike.