Last weekend

Beautiful Sunset

This weekend was pretty busy for us. On Saturday alone we had two parties that we went to. We first headed southeast for my husband's work family picnic. We then headed over to Santa Cruz for a friend's 30th birthday BBQ. We had a lot of fun eating and playing soccer and bocce. It was really hot at the work picnic but the beach was semi cool. By the time the sun started going down the fog started to roll in so we started our bond fire to warm up. Definitely not "jump in the ocean" type weather. But I seem to forget sometimes how close we are to the beach and how we should take advantage of it more often when it's warm! Just need to be sure to always bring a sweater or jacket!

While the sun was shining!

Berkeley Kite Festival 7/28

My husband and I had a great time at the Kite Festival last weekend! We bought a kite and he put it together. It had a rough start to get enough height but it soon reached where everyone else was. Some friends from church joined us in the afternoon for a picnic and had a great time talking to them!

Memorial Day: Picnic In The Park

My husband was on his way back from LA Congress (Salsa Competition) on Memorial Day...his flight was delayed for 2 hours so that cut into my plans of eating out on a picnic/hiking adventure at Marin Headlands. So hopefully some weekend soon we will make it over there, it looks beautiful! Anyways, so I picked him up from the airport and we decided to just find a park to eat a late lunch since I had already packed a picnic for hiking anyways. It was probably a good idea that we did not go on a hike because he was pretty tired from such a long weekend and was asleep soon after our late lunch. We decided to check out Cesar Chavez Park where people go to fly their kites. It was pretty windy (which is why it is a great place for kite flying) but we found a place on a side of a hill that had no wind. I decided next time we go to that park we will have to buy and bring an awesome kite to fly and that we'll have to go to the kite flying festival in July! Here are a few shots that I took with Instagram and my iPhone as my exhasted husband was taking his mini-nap on our picnic spot. Unfortunately, my iphone can't capture all the little kites in the sky but you get the picture...

Golden Gate

This was an older man on a skate board, it looked like hard work to control it and it was super windy...I was impressed by his age and his skill that he was exercising in this way!

My cherry picking adventures!

Today I went to pick cherries and boysenberries at Pease Cherry Farm. I have never picked cherries before...or boysenberries. It really makes you appreciate all of the workers and farmers who put in hard work to bring us all those berries from those prickly plants! I had a great time and scored 2 lbs of cherries and 2 lbs of boysenberries. A friend and I thought we had about 4 lbs between the both of us but once it was weighed we had 7.5 lbs! Glad we stopped when we did or we would have had to walk away with over 7.5 lbs of cherries!!!

What a cherry's butt would look like if it had one ;P

Boysenberries!

My stash

Don't they look so yummy!

Cherries!

Me and my awesome floppy hat!!!

Tiffany and Leah ready for some berry picking!

Dolores Park

Wow, I am so behind on getting my posts out but I am making up for it from about 3-4 weeks of pictures. A few weeks ago we had just gone to a Spring Picnic at the church we have been going to on Saturday and had a great time meeting some people from the church. Antonio was asked if he wanted to try tight rope walking with some of the guys so he did and I could hardly get him off it to go home! He had such a good time because he loves a good challenge! So, on Sunday we had to take Antonio's friend/co-worker after church to the airport to fly back home to Germany so we knew we were going to be in San Francisco but since we got there so early we had hours to kill before our salsa lessons. We ended up just driving around San Francisco with no real plans of what we were going to do, we drove past a park where there was tons of people just hanging out and people watching guys tight rope walking between a few palm trees! So we just had to stop and watch. Soon after we started watching the guys who had brought the ropes asked around and said if anyone wanted to try they were welcome to try it so Antonio hopped on and had a bit more practice on the tight rope. It was soon after that Antonio was able to walk a few steps across without falling. While Antonio was doing that I was able to get some great shots of the park, of just random people and kids who wanted to try out the tight rope walking too. I did try walking on the tight rope 2x but was unsuccessful haha. Some of them turned out quite neat so here is some of the pictures in the park from a few weeks ago.