Sunday, February 24, 2008

When California gives us rain...

...we drink wine. Here we are with our friends Brandon and Karen who
graciously rode the train down from the city to explore a few Santa
Cruz Mountains wineries with us. It was fun. The wine was tasty and it
took the bite out of another rainy weekend.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Ano Nuevo

We braved the wet and windy weather today to travel to Ano Nuevo State Preserve to see one of California's elephant seal breeding grounds. It was an amazing experience. We were on a docent lead hike through the breeding colony, we saw hundreds of elephant seals and, considering the males weigh as much as a Chevy Suburban, we were surprisingly close (~25 feet). Here is a link to a few of our photos:

Here is a link to a video we took of the elephant seals. The most important part of this film is the sound. The monkey-like screeches are the baby seals, the motor-cycle-like sounds are the males.



We were joined on this adventure by davidandmarta.com. In fact, D&M organized the entire adventure, we just showed up. They also probably did a more complete job of describing the day, so check their site for additional photos and stories.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Peeking

It wouldn't be a vacation without a little peeking now, would it?

Symphony

We also went to the symphony. This is a shot of the SF city hall.

Cherry blossoms

Plus, if we had flown to Japan, it would have been cold. Here we can
celebrate spring in February with cherry blossoms.

Low carbon footprint vacation

Instead of flying to Japan, we drove to Japantown for the weekend.
Here I am eating some udon. Yummy!

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Contrast

Nothing like NY in a snow storm to be reminded what month it is. Its
too bad Olivia isn't here with me...my primary NY activities on this
snowy evening will be riding the subway, eating pizza by the slice and
blogging from my iPhone.

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Sweet!

Its flip-flop weather again. Thank goodness, that was a rough three
weeks of "frigid" rainy weather.

All kidding aside, the weather us absolutely awesome, we went on a
Tour de Silicon Valley bike ride this morning and are now off to Santa
Cruz for a beach bonfire with our friends.