Weekends

Opening night at the opera was great fun. Rob and I got dressed to the nines after work and grabbed a slice of pizza (tradition!) on our way to the opera house. We were a bit late, due to my poor planning, but still enjoyed the opera and all the gowns. Il Trovatore had amazing…

With the bike tour quickly approaching, Rob and I spent a lot of the weekend getting in some mileage on the tandem. It was a nice chance to relax after last weekend’s music festival craziness. And with the Bay Bridge closed all weekend, the city was nicely low-key. On Friday, Rob and I pedaled over…

Wow…what a weekend. This is another one for the record books! On Friday, a heat wave hit the city. Temperatures in the high eighties slowed us all down dramatically. Rob and I had a beer after work out on the fishing pier in the bay. We briefly joined the Critical Mass ride on our tandem…

Rob and I went on a little bike adventure this weekend. It was a great example of how inexpensively and easily you can plan a getaway from the city. On Saturday morning, Rob and I packed up the tandem and attached our Burley cart full of camping gear. Rob had booked a free campsite in…

Another great weekend full of friends, family and big parties. This seems to be a theme for August. My sister, Jean, arrived from North Carolina late Thursday night. She had a day to explore the city before we left for San Luis Obispo on Friday afternoon. We picked up Margaret in Burlingame on the way…

This was a fun weekend full of new family units! On Friday, Rob and I biked to North Beach for dinner with Matt and Amber. We brought supplies from Trader Joe’s and helped put the twins down for their evening sleep. Wine, cheese, salami, olives, salad, mac ‘n cheese and cheesecake. After dinner, we fed…

We had a fun adventure this weekend! Rob, Margaret and I left early Saturday morning on the ferry to Angel Island. Isn’t our summer overcast lovely: It was nice and sunny once we landed on the island. Just in time for Rob to bike up the dirt trail with all our camping gear. Our campsite…

Wow! How did we possibly fit it all in this weekend? Let’s start with Friday night: Rob and I dashed home, had dinner and ran back out to meet Allison at The Mint for a birthday karaoke session. Lots of fun songs and some pretty good singers. Back home a little early… …so I could…

So nice to be in the city this weekend with warm summer weather and no more bronchitis. This weekend was all about cycling and home-keeping, hence domestique. On Friday night, Rob picked me up from work on the tandem and we rode home. Dinner for two at Little Star Pizza and then over to the…

Rob and I joined his parents up in Plumas County for a solar cook-off festival this weekend. Rob’s dad has recently taken up solar cooking and has built different types of sun-heated ovens based on his own designs. Unfortunately, the cook-off turned out to be more of an outdoor music festival. I get the appeal…