Lately

We headed for the hills President's Day to try out mountain biking. There's some trails up in the redwood forests. We barely managed to fit our bikes into our four-door car by taking wheels off, and hanging the handlebars out the windows. Once we found a parking lot we felt a little under dressed because everyone else was totally spandexed out, and using their fancy bike racks, and talking about investing in property in Europe...no joke. So we set out for the trails anyway, and chose a bad one. We rode down, down, down...and never stopped our descent until we ate lunch and I started pouting on this log here.























We found some cute little banana slugs. Which are also the mascot for UC Santa Cruz. Then we rode up, up, up (and walked) and called it a day. It was probably not the best introduction to mountain biking, and Britton is trying really hard to convince me to go again except start with the uphill and end with the downhill.

We also planned to do a bonfire out at the beach with some friends. The day got really windy so we opted for a bonfire at Lake Lagunita instead. It's kind of a glorified water retention area on Stanford's campus. But this time of year it has water...and DUCKS! We got a fire going on the sandy beach-ish area, and ate Girl Scout cookies and told embarrassing stories about each other.