Labor Day

I hope you all had a wonderful, relaxing weekend. My husband and I were looking for things to do close to home. Saturday we didn't do too much, we relaxed at home the majority of the day. Sunday we went to a Brazilian Festival in the afternoon that we found on  http://sf.funcheap.com/ We listened to Brazilian music and watched traditional dancing as we ate some very rich chocolate truffles!

On Monday we woke up fairly early to beat the heat to run at Lands End. We have been to Lands End before but never hiked the whole trail. We mixed my love for hiking and my husband's love for running together and jogged the trail. Before we began our run we parked our car a bit from the trail head and decided to take a "short cut" down the side of the steep hill. We had some laughs as I hung from a branch like a monkey, it was pretty slippery, and we both thought maybe we should have just walked to the beginning instead of almost sliding all the way down the hill!

The views are great and you can take the trail from the Presidio to the Cliff House, which is probably a few miles one way.

A quick pic at one of the vista points

Golden Gate Bridge, right before the sun came out and the fog cleared

Soccer Finals

Most of the team before the game

This post is late but I wanted to show off my husband's soccer team. Saturday the 10th his league won this season's finals!!! Everyone was very excited and proud. I love watching my husband play soccer. I never was really into sports growing up with all girls in my family, sports were really not an interest of mine. I played volleyball in middle school and l was in gymnastics and liked it but I don't really have a competitive personality. I have more of an artsy personality, playing musical instruments, art, and doing handmade crafts like knitting, crocheting and sewing. But, as I watch my husband play I see how determined and movtivated he is as he runs for a ball, he is definitely not a lazy player! He is a pretty fast runner, has a lot of endurance, and has good footwork. I'm pretty impressed, haha! We go out to the field sometimes on the weekend and I toss the balls to him to practice passing and ball taps and after he shoots the ball I throw them back to him. I can definitely see the fun in soccer and I enjoy watching the game. It is such a joy to watch him play. So, I just wanted to say "good job team!" ☺


First place

Sporting his new winners jersey



A little less organized picture but here is part of the team with their huge trophy



Color Run 2013

This is what we did this weekend: The Color Run: "The Happiest 5K on the Planet"

Us at the Starting Line before the color fun began!

   

Antonio about to cross the finish line!

We Did IT!!!

Color countdown!

A beautiful ride!

This Sunday my husband and I rented bikes in the city and rode them down the embracadero, past all the piers, until we got to the Golden Gate bridge. We stopped a few times along the way to take a few pictures with my phone, which was much needed at times, there are some crazy hills! We need to buy a bike for my hubby so we can do this more often! We really enjoyed the ride and the views!!!

Yosemite Park

Last weekend we went to Yosemite Park. We were asked by a friend to go camp with her and a friend.  They were going to go on a hike on Saturday up to Glacier Point. We have been wanting to go to Yosemite since we got to Cali but we haven't had a chance to go. I was really excited to go not only because I heard how great Yosemite was but also because our friend had made reservations for a campsite in the park and I knew that this would be Antonio's first time sleeping in a tent and camping in general. We had talked about going a few times to Colorado but never did and we also did not own a tent either...so we bought a tent and brought out our coolers. We were able to sleep very well because our tent fit our queen size air mattress that we bought when we didn't have a bed to sleep in when we moved to our new apartment. We went on a 13 mile hike. On the way up we went on a trail called "4 mile trail" and "Panorama" down. It was pretty intense at times but the views throughout the hike and when we got to the top it was so worth it. It took us about all day to do the whole hike. Since it had snowed 4-5 days before we got there about 10in there was snow on the trail at times which got packed down by all the hikers which made it pretty icy at times which was kinda scary if you think about it, we could have slipped and rolled down the mountain. As I look through the pictures it just doesn't show how big and how beautiful it really was. It was amazing! So, if any of you are coming to visit us (wink, wink!) we should go together, it's only about 3.5 hours away from where we live. It was a great trip and we had such a great time!!!! Can't wait to go again!

  Our new tent!

This fire had a hard time starting but we were pretty proud of it once we got it going!

Glacier Point, the mountain we hiked up!

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Us with our camping and hiking buddies

Here we are all energetic and chipper at the trail head 

Can you see the rainbow?

Us on the hike, with "Half Dome" behind us

Getting towards the top of the mountain

Top view from Glacier Point, the picture is of Half Dome

He was trying to steal everyone's lunch :)

On our way down, usually when I see a tree that has an opening I just have to get inside haha!

Antonio carrying both of our bags for awhile, everyone kept saying he was like a machine, we were all huffing and puffing after the first few hours of going up hill and he was just full of energy. He insisted that he should carry my bag for awhile plus his camera backpack!!!

This was a huge rock, I know it's hard to see but it seems like we couldn't even fit 1/4 of the rock in our lense!

This is Lower Yosemite Falls which by the name you know that it is the end of the falls