Weekend Happenings

This weekend was so fabulous. Seriously. I can't believe we did everything that we did in only 48 or so hours. Started off Friday afternoon when I headed downtown to meet up with Trent's coworkers for some margaritas and bean dip (perfect!). Got pleasantly relaxed and then realized we were running late, and dashed over to Lombardi Sports to pick up T's new tri race jersey and his fancy new bike frame. Then we quickly stopped by the house to pick up our gear for swim lessons! Much better this week, I actually kinda felt like I knew what I was doing and I got to teach the first class in Spanish. Que bueno! Finished up lessons and headed out for our fancy date night. Dinner at the Moffitt Hospital cafeteria and then Transamerica at the UCSF auditorium. How very romantic :) It was fun to be over there for other than work reasons, and the movie was realllly well done. Mad props to Felicity Huffman, she did an amazing job.

Saturday we got up really early for some bike riding madness. Trent's old crew coaching friend Colleen is getting into cycling so she and I headed out at 7:30am for a nice ride. Except for a flat tire. But luckily Trent was with us for that. And about 500 AIDS LifeCycle bicyclists, all eager to help out. Trent met up with some Lombardi teammates and did a longer ride, but Colleen had to get back by 10, so we headed home. It was a foggy day, but I have never seen so many people out riding, surfing, sailing, running.. I ran across the bridge, in a mini-brick workout and was amazed to see people swimming, sans wetsuits, from the Marin headlands, under the bridge, to Aquatic Park! Crazy crazy. They stopped to wave at me and the current swept them out to sea nearly a few meters! Luckily they had lots of people in boats watching out for them. Met up with T back at the car and headed home for some super yummy breakfast and a quick nap before heading out to Feria Urbana. The 71 bus goes right to the Canvas Gallery, which always has something cool going on, we've gotta be better about checking it out. This Feria Urbana was a little less insane that the last one, but still lots of great goodies and yummy lattes. I picked up my new favorite shirt from a guy who is in the band Tarfuti, and gave us a cd. Love the shirt, the band is almost really good, needs a little work. Felt good to support local artists.

Stopped by some local bike shops on the lovely walk home to decide which water bottle cages weigh less and ponder the insanity of spending $60 on a titanium one. This new bike is going to be amazing, that is for sure. Then T got a call from an old Davis buddy who also climbs at Mission Cliffs. We had seen him that morning while he was training with the other Aids LifeCycle folks. Turns out he was having a bbq to raise funds for the race. We scooted on home, and drove out to the Outer Richmond immediately. Which was very very much too early. So we wandered around the neighborhood and Trent spent an incredible amount of time in a little hardware store finding makeshift tools for his bike. Plumbing pipes?? Trust me. We finally went over and had a lovely time meeting tons of great new people and in the small world that SF is, people we knew. A firecrew buddy of Trent's, a girl who climbs at Mission, and the infamous dude who fell off the wall at the climbing gym and broke his leg! He even showed us his massive scars. I thought is was an urban legend.. Anyways, good food, lots of beer, and an amazingly good 10 year old video gamer and we finally called it a night around 8:30. Came home and watched Derailed, which was intense, but pretty good.

Sunday we finally got to sleep in a little bit before starting a massive cleaning spree. Laundry, dishes, scrubbing everything. It was great. But we felt a little sad cuz it was SOOO amazingly beautiful outside. So I went down to Estela's sandwiches and picked up lunch and we had a picnic in our bathing suits on the roof. Almost like the beach, eh? It got a little windy up there so we headed down and grabbed the bikes to go find an open tennis court. Dolores Park was packed with people rallying for immigration, but Buena Vista courts were open. And there were a ton of people climbing on that random rock wall. A bit windy, but we had a great time playing. Got home around 6, T made me a fancy dinner, and we watched Tristan and Isolde. I had no idea what this one was about, but it was really well done and got me very into it.

Whew, what a busy and wonderful weekend. And today is looking like it will be awesome as well. Rode my urban assault bike with no problems and made it here in about 1/5th the time the bus requires. Still wearing my favorite new shirt.. drinking my favorite green tea with orange, jasmine and passionfruit flavors.. Can't complain!!