Diablo Blanco -> sightseeing in SF

There was some low elevation snow in the forecast, so we decided to do the next best thing to BALLS (Bay Area Low Level Skiing)... BUD (Bike up Diablo).  So I picked up Scott and we rode from Sigman's house.  

Check out the summit!

 

This early ride gave me plenty of time to get back and shower.  Then we took a Lyft to Jack London to hop on the ferry for a day in SF.

The boys are sad to leave Oakland... not...

 

at the Cable Car museum...

Cool tokens from around the country

  

the Key system in Oakland!

 

 

Coit Tower, in memory of volunteer firemen.

the line was too long, so we left, but the boys liked sliding down... 

 

 

 

 

and we found a geocache!

 

  

 

 

this was an amazing playground btw.  Need to take the kids back here... 

 

we found this place in N. Beach for dinner.  

 

 

 

in China town we found some dim sum that the boys devoured.  Around this time they were getting quite goofy and silly.. time to get home!

  

Another busy weekend in the bay... feat. Thomas and Camille

Started off a Thurs with a nice ride with the C510 crew... glorious sunrise  

A rare weekend in town!  We had Thomas and Camille for the weekend... and boy did we have a lot planned... I'll just let the pics do the talking. 

Fri - Ran with Nikko to school

meanwhile... Kimbo saw this guy with his pet goat in Berkeley

Fri afternoon, we started off with a ride down to Chinatown Oakland to buy some pastries...

and went to OMCA for Fri Nights!

Pretty amazing sunset...

The dualing RadWagons have been quite the hit this summer...

The next morning was national neighborhood clean up day, so I took the 4 boys down to the creek so we could help out.  They found a bird egg...

Tons of trash...

And got free bandanas. 

Then we went to check out the Dragon Boat Races at Lake Merritt.  They didn't really care about the races, but there was "Dragon Land"... which they did care about. 

 

 

 

Probably the least exciting part of their day...

 

  

Then we cruised down to Jack London for the Eat Real Festival 

Which also featured lots of people, bubbles, games, etc...

Oh, and we made some custom engraved wooden spoons... courtesy of Toyota Mirai, the sponsors. 

 

dab...

The attempt at the group pic...

 

This Paella stand had the longest line... 

Then I took the Dufour kids to play soccer.  My boys watched and cheered them on. 

We rode by our clean up site later.  Check out all that trash!  Good work neighbors!

The next day was Sigman's 50th B-day.  So after cruising out to Walnut Creek with the fam, I veered off and rode up to the saddle with them. 

Them as in Sigman, Moses, Adnan and his wife. 

meanwhile...

The boys had plenty of fun...

The boys wanted to do a ride of their own, so we went to the bay bridge. 

Where they found the trolls...

 

 

 

 

 

Oh the good ole days when the train went to SF.  ABOVE the bay. 

And soon we were at Sigman's 50th party at an Afghan restaurant.  Our kids behaved quite well... the other kid?  Not so much... yikes, what a terror. 

 

Happy B-day Sigman!

Getting a wee bit stoked for ski season... Candide is the GOAT