Right before B ran over a piece of glass and deflated his bike tire.

Oh my!  What a week!  What a month!  I've been catching up on projects that have been in progress, making new wallets, going to a lot of concerts, going to the beach, and riding around town. 

This week my favourite shows were Animal Collective and Black Dice.  Animal Collective was probably too good since my friend who drove me home had to help me walk up my front porch at the end of the night.  I'd like to say that next time I'll drink one can of wine instead of two but when that time rolls around I'll have forgotten all about it.  You know how I feel about canned beverages.  They're so portable!  My parents are very proud.  I didn't bring my camera into the A.C. show and the pictures I took at B.D. are too good to even post here.  

Time for a photo montage.  

This first one is a really great photo that has won many awards because it's so awesome.  This is me and my friend Heather, whom I met in grade school.  Yes, we're lounging by a jacuzzi.  She was in town from Winnipeg for a teaching course and we met up at her hotel, which was just down the street from my house.

A couple of weeks ago we went to a River Cats baseball game with some friends.  It was terrible. To start, we almost didn't make it because I decided to pick a fight with B near the Crocker museum before the game.  An expensive hotdog helped me get over it.  Then, a busload of kids pulled up and you can guess where they sat.

  

B and I went to my favourite beach in Point Reyes one weekend when it was over 100 degrees in Sacramento.  It was a lot cooler by the coast but we still got to lounge about in the sand in our swimsuits.  We picked up some cheese and wine and ate it by the sea and then played paddle ball.  I want to live here.

I play tennis with this dude and we go on adventures together.  Last weekend we took a ferry from Vallejo to San Francisco and saw the sights in the Haight area, which ended up being the inside of two bars.  The first one, Hobson's [something or other] had big windows and cheap rum drinks.  I got to do a lot of interesting people watching and talk to a really old man.  By the end of the night we'd lost track of time/our senses and had to take a bus, a taxi, and then run to catch the ferry back.

Bear Falls

Whenever I feel like going on a hike somewhere I go to a website that has local hikes within 2 hours of Sacramento.  The directions on the website are often iffy and sometimes/almost never it is probably not a good idea to drive down some of the suggested routes in our mini cooper.  

A couple weekends ago I found a "very easy" hike in Bear Falls that is only about an hour and a half east of here.  It probably isn't surprising to anyone but us, but there was snow there!  It turns out we were almost at Tahoe.  To get there our map and GPS suggested taking a winding unpaved uphill road and after about 2 minutes of that we turned around and found another way to the park.  I'm just happy it wasn't another Last Chance Road episode.

The dipper bird is a kind of bird that only lives around freshwater streams and rivers.  We saw a sign on the walk with a drawing of one and a description of its signature dance move.  The bird bends its knees and does a little dip.  I saw one!  After the first sighting B spent an hour trying to get a good photo of one.