Boot Camp!

Karl and I decided it was time to jazz up our workouts a little and we joined BOOT CAMP! A change from our normal running routine through Golden Gate Park we decided to try something new. Karl joined a co-ed class in the evenings and I joined a women's only class in the mornings...early...5am! We are very sore and loving it! Carly kicks our buts and 10 minutes into the class I'm peeling off layers of clothing. We meet down bat Aquatic Park, right behind Ghiradelli Sq. and it's normally pretty chilly and pitch black when we meet from 5-6am! We workout in the dark with only the Alcatraz light circling around from across the bay. We do cardio, strength training, obstacle courses, bleachers, stairs and whatever other torture our coaches can come up with! Last week our favorite workout was the famous San Francisco Lyon St. stairs! ...VERY steep and long stairs that we went up and down about 5 times! Oh, and that would be too easy to just go up and down them and call it a and down them and then call it a morning. We alternated doing squats, lunges and pushups in between each set! I couldn't feel my legs by the end of class and I'm STILL sore! The pictures here just don't do them justice. They are soo steep and they keep going..and going. It was a fun change and a good workout! Next week we run the GG Bridge!!

You've come a long way baby!

Happy 18th Riane!

Napa Valley

(More Napa Pics in our gallery!)

Congrats to the Potts!

Ladies in San Fran!

Mom and the girls, Riane and Tay, visited us for the 4th and we had so much fun! We went to so many different cities- LA, Malibu, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Carmel, and of the course our favorite- San Fran! Riane got to tour around UCLA, UCSB, Pepperdine, UC Berkley, Stanford, & Pomona. We had fun in every city! We did a tour of Alcatraz, went to Sausalito and shopped & ate on the water, we did a day trip to Monterey and Carmel and went on a whale watching trip to see humpback whales! (See pictures) The Monterey Bay Aquarium was awesome with lots of cool stuff and exhibits and the coast in Monterey was full of seal life- otters, sea lions, and whales. Santa Barbara and Malibu were beautiful! We ate the best Sushi EVER at Ebisu here in SF and our favorite was the 49'r roll by FAR! It was like butter!!! They got to try our favorite Ethiopian, Thai, & Indian restaurants!..yum! :)

We all walked to the park and saw the Butterfly exhibit in the Conservatory of Flowers and it was so neat to walk in this atrium full of butterflies buzzing about landing on you! Taking a limo to Chinatown was fun! After seeing the 1 hour trolley line to Chinatown we decided to hop in a limo for the same price to take us to Chinatown! It really does feel like you are in a different part of the world the way the streets are just packed and narrow and plenty of dead animals hanging in the windows of markets...interesting. Of of course the best shopping was just one block away from our apt on Haight! (See Pictures!) We went to Sausalito after touring Alcatraz and the bridge and ate at an awesome restaurant right on the water. I miss everyone already and finally had to switch modes back to a working lady with my job at Google starting on Wednesday.

Girls Gone Wild- Florida

Florida with the girls for Wein's Batchelorette party was a blast!! (We all look so normal and innocent here..don't be fooled! :) I miss my girls so much! We had so much fun just hanging out on the beach, talking, laughing and of course partying! (We didn't have too many encounters with junk yard cats falling out of the rafters) but we all had very rough flights home on Sunday to say the least...I can't wait for the wedding to party with everyone again and hopefully get some TEX MEX and ritas! (click here for all the pics)

Lake Tahoe!

We went to Lake Tahoe to rock climb with some friends this weekend. There were six of us total and we were very lucky to stay at Karl's co-worker's fabulous vacation home in Lake Tahoe. The drive from San Francisco was about four hours. We climbed at Luther Spires the first day and had to hike in about 40 minutes to get to the rocks. We climbed all day with the guys completing about 6-7 climbs that day. (PICTURES!) I successfully got to the top of a hard climb for my first climb outside! I was very proud and it was tough! It's alot harder without all the preinstalled grips built into the wall for you like the gym and was having to stick my hands into tiny little crevices and pull very hard to propel myself up the huge rock. It took me awhile but I did it! The next day, moving a little slower and definitely sore from the first day we climbed at Big Chief and the hike in was about 30 minutes and the climbs were a little tougher and taller at some points. We climbed and then went a took a dip in the chilly Truckee River! It felt soo good and it was warm out this weekend so it was refreshing. We forgot what cold water really felt like after our warm swims in August in Texas. There were a ton of rafters and tubers floating by and we were happy to actually take a dip in some water. It made us miss home. We had a great weekend and can't wait to go back and camp and then SKI in the winter!!