Lily Tomlin Moment

Had a great weekend, did a few fun things and also managed to get some naps and rest in.

Friday night after work I headed over to Lindsay's mom's house for her 24th birthday. Rocky was pretty tired and still wasn't feeling great so he stayed home. He wanted to rest up for our run on Saturday. Birthday party was low key but fun. We had some yummy Zachary's Pizza and salad for dinner. A few beers were also had but we all did really great and had no more than two because we had to run the next day. I had hydrated well on Thursday and all day Friday so that helped. We had a good time laughing and being silly as always.

Saturday morning I was up at 5:30am so we could be out of the house by 6:30 and meet Jeanette and Olivia in Berkeley. I thought it was going to be warm because it had been so hot on Friday but lucky for us it was perfect running weather and the sun never came out and it was pretty cool the whole time. The only bad thing was that it was windy so during some parts of our run we had a head wind :o( We decided to head towards Emeryville so we could have a change of scenery. Rocky did 8 miles and Jeanette, Olivia and I did 10 miles. We all felt great and we all had a great run. Olivia and I finished 10.13 miles in 2 hours and Jeanette finished about 10 minutes before us. I was pretty sore yesterday but I'm feeling pretty good today. I am really happy that I am back on track and having such great runs.

We saw a few other people out at Berkeley on Saturday who didn't really feel like making the drive to Fremont for the Mentor Led Run. Brandy was one of those people and I was really happy to see her out there. She's not always able to run with the team and meeting us at 7am was too early for her but she made it a point to get out there even if it meant doing her run on her own. I'm really proud of her. She's been doing great with her training.

Rocky and I had breakfast after the run then headed home for showers and a nap. The doggies decided they needed a nap too but were so busy trying to snuggle with me and make sure that one didn't have more space next to me than the other that I never really fell asleep, oh well. We got up and headed over to Walnut Creek for some shopping. We had some wedding gifts to return and an insane amount of gift cards to use up :o) I love going shopping with gift cards, you get to spend money but not really. We picked out a really nice headboard/footboard for our bed and an extra chair for our dining room table. Can't wait til they arrive. It'll be the last pieces of furniture we need to make our home complete.

Saturday evening we headed over to Daly City to celebrate Rocky's grandmother's 85th birthday. She looks amazing for 85 and other than a bum shoulder she is in great health. We had a good time hanging out with the family.

Sunday we headed to Sonoma for our quarterly trip up there to pick up our wine from Cline Cellars Winery. I didn't think we were going to have time to get up there this month but after talking with my sister-in-law, Minnelli, a few weeks ago we figured that Sunday would work and what the heck we should just head up there. It's always a nice trip up there and we always have a good time. This time we decided that we'd have a picnic since Cline has a great picnic area and the weather was suppose to be nice. I got up at 6am and headed to the grocery store to stock up on picnic stuff. We got salami, turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, avocados and bread to make sandwich's. Olivia brought our favorite Rachel Ray Pasta Salad, nectarines that Martin and Minnelli had brought and for dessert some cookies. We opened up a couple of bottles of wine that we had picked up from our membership and just enjoyed the nice weather, the food and the company. It was a perfect Sunday afternoon. Afterwards we headed across the street to see the new addition to the Cellar Family, the Jacuzzi Family Vineyards. The grounds were really pretty and they did a great job with the new building. We did a little wine tasting there and then headed home.

BUT not before we did a little Lily Tomlin reenactment. The last time we were in Sonoma we had seen some huge beach chairs on the side of the road. They are right at the entrance to the Visitor's center in Sonoma. Rocky had kept wanting to stop there to take pictures so this time on our way out we did, it was pretty funny, especially cause I couldn't get in the chair :o(

When you drive into Sonoma, Domain Carneros is one of the first wineries you see, it's a gorgeous building and I always want to go check it out so on our way home we headed in there. It was really pretty inside and had a really pretty view so we decided to go ahead and have a seat outside and enjoy the view and do some champagne tasting. The champagne was yummy, I think I even liked it better than the one we'd tried at Gloria Ferrer the first time we went tasting in this area.

We got home at a decent time so the rest of the evening was spent relaxing.