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So a quick little update about our weekend. Our weekend was great and full of adventure. Friday was a relaxing evening at home, yummy boneless pork ribs that Travis had made and all the trimmings. :) It was so great to be asleep by 10:30pm.
Saturday we got up early, around 7:30am, ate breakfast and then decided to go try out a park near our house that supposedly had decent mountain biking. Well it didn't but it had some major hills, so Trav helped me get better at how to position myself for going up steep hills. I fell a few times, just going slow and actually once while Trav was holding on to the back of my bike, but it was fun. Afterwards because we were done by 11, we went over to the gym for a good workout and I ran about 2 miles, just to get the kinks out.
We were going to spend the rest of the day reading and hanging out at home, but with the weather so nice, we decided to head out instead. So we headed to the mall, LOL I know inside, but at least we were out of the house. We wandered the mall a bit, found lots of stuff I wanted and Trav wanted, and by that time, luckily it was time to head over to our movie. We saw the new Anthony Hopkins movie, Fracture. We both loved it. Makes you think, trying to figure out who did what and where.
Sunday, well this is where the weekend gets interesting. So we had made plans with Tim and Kathy, a guy I work with and his wife (will post pictures later) to head out to try a different spot over in Lafayette, yes where I used to live. The park is called Briones and it was supposed to have some single track, be rolling hills and have some good tree cover as well as open space. Well the single track, not too sure about. Hills, yes there were hills, but I climbed them all, as did Trav, we both are pretty happy with how in shape we are for climbing, but there is always better. So after we got to the top, had a little picnic, enjoyed the view, we headed down. We all made it through the first down hill stretch, about 400-500' drop in a mile I would say, with loose dirt. Then since I was feeling so confident I decided to go first and just took off. Well about half way down, I got a little out of control and my front tire went into a rut and got stopped by a nice root. Well I did what is called an endo, I went end over end, over my handle bars and landed on my butt and back. However when my tire got stopped, I think I locked out my arms and so when I tried to get, there was no way I could push myself back up. I ended up with some help getting up, back on the bike and going down one handed the rest of the way, luckily it was a very slight decline the rest of the way. Trav was a sweetheart and got my ice, Advil and helped me ice them the rest of the night.
On Monday, we noticed there was a bruise on my right elbow and it was all swollen, however the left, which I thought I hurt worse, was just still sore, but not swollen. I went in to see my doctor, who then sent me to X-Rays. She called and told me I had fluid in my right elbow but the left was fine, probably just bruised. So yesterday I went and saw the Orthopedist she referred me to, and with a week and a half before my marathon, I have a stress fracture in my right radial, just below the head of the elbow joint. Luckily we are out of town every weekend for the next 4 weeks, so I can't mountain bike, but he did say I could run the marathon, just be careful and ice it after and take some anti-inflammatories before and after the race.
So otherwise I am a bit banged up, which I am sure most people will see when we are in town this weekend. The blue bruises will match the blue and white dress I have to wear. LOL
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007
Kaboom!
Another week has flown by and here I am just posting about our fun times down here. Travis is finally back, after what felt like the longest three weeks, though I really only went 2 weeks of not seeing him, and what felt like never talking to him, but probably text messaging at least 20 times a day. :) He had a great time with the guys, I think missed me a ton (I like to think so), got a nice tan, and learned a lot.
Friday night was a relaxing evening. Just dinner and a movie, just enjoyed being home. Saturday was a great day! I bought a mountain bike while Trav was gone, and don't laugh too hard, but it is the exact same bike as Travis, except made for short people like me. HAHAHAHAHA I got a smoking deal and am so happy because now we are going to go at least once a week, I am even going to try and get him to go after work somedays. So Saturday, was a very full day. We slept in a bit, then had to hurry off to get Travis fitted for his tux for Chris's wedding which is now only 2 weeks away! After driving around for 30 minutes, because well I thought I knew where the place was, but really I had no clue and now I am banned from guessing where places are and must have a map, Travis made me call the Men's Warehouse and ask where they were located.
Next it was off to the city (aka San Francisco, everyone just says the city because well it is the biggest city there is pretty much on the West Coast) for a bike tour on our own, plus testing out my new bike. We parked down by AT&T park, which is on the South side of the city and looks towards Oakland, and headed around the Embarcadero and by all the Piers, the Ferry Building, through Fisherman's Wharf, up and through Fort Mason, down through the Marina District and then up the Presidio and over the Golden Gate Bridge and finally down into Sausolito. The ride was so much fun but had a killer headwind, so it was a great workout! I have never ridden or walked over the bridge so to do that with Travis was just Amazing and the day was so clear it was beautiful!!! We took the Ferry back to the city and biked back to our car to change for the second part of the day.
The afternoon and evening we spent with people from my office, some of my friends, at an event called Kaboom, a series of 3 concerts and finished off with a fireworks show out over the Bay, right behind the Pier the concert is held on, put on by a radio station. Work purchased the tickets for everyone which was great. However since this was my first time at the event, I did not know that the line to get in started first thing in the morning, so we got in line about 4pm, when the concerts started, well the line was over 1.5 miles long winding all the way down the Embarcadero. Luckily about a mile down the line, my boss Gary was there with his son, and with no cops around they waved us in. So indtead of an hour wait we only had about a 30 minute wait. CRAZY!! I guess 50,000 people were in the event on the Pier and over 350,000 gather in the city and in Oakland to watch the fireworks. I forget how big this area is sometimes. Two of the concerts were ok, but they had GUSTER! and you know i LOVE THEM! However, when the sun dropped the temperature plummeted. We were prepared to be sitting out with it somewhere in the 50's but it was easily mid 40's if not low 40's. So from about 7:30pm and on, I was pretty much attached to Travis so we could try and keep each other wamr, lots of people didn't stay for the fireworks because they were shaking it was so cold. Being out on a Pier the wind just blew and cut right through every layer you were wearing. My warm coat was no longer warm. But the fireworks show was the best one by far Trav and I had ever seen and well worth chattering and freezing. After the show, we got out as fast as we could and cranke the heat up in the car, which when the heat finally blew, I was so cold it stung to feel the warmth.
Sunday was a nice day of rest and errands. This upcoming weekend sounds like it is going to be a great weekend, more of an adventourus one and of course the running. Which if anyone is keeping track, I am down to 2 weeks before the marathon, yikes! So we hope to see lots of you when we are in Oregon for Memorial Day weekend. Stay in touch!
Friday night was a relaxing evening. Just dinner and a movie, just enjoyed being home. Saturday was a great day! I bought a mountain bike while Trav was gone, and don't laugh too hard, but it is the exact same bike as Travis, except made for short people like me. HAHAHAHAHA I got a smoking deal and am so happy because now we are going to go at least once a week, I am even going to try and get him to go after work somedays. So Saturday, was a very full day. We slept in a bit, then had to hurry off to get Travis fitted for his tux for Chris's wedding which is now only 2 weeks away! After driving around for 30 minutes, because well I thought I knew where the place was, but really I had no clue and now I am banned from guessing where places are and must have a map, Travis made me call the Men's Warehouse and ask where they were located.
Next it was off to the city (aka San Francisco, everyone just says the city because well it is the biggest city there is pretty much on the West Coast) for a bike tour on our own, plus testing out my new bike. We parked down by AT&T park, which is on the South side of the city and looks towards Oakland, and headed around the Embarcadero and by all the Piers, the Ferry Building, through Fisherman's Wharf, up and through Fort Mason, down through the Marina District and then up the Presidio and over the Golden Gate Bridge and finally down into Sausolito. The ride was so much fun but had a killer headwind, so it was a great workout! I have never ridden or walked over the bridge so to do that with Travis was just Amazing and the day was so clear it was beautiful!!! We took the Ferry back to the city and biked back to our car to change for the second part of the day.
The afternoon and evening we spent with people from my office, some of my friends, at an event called Kaboom, a series of 3 concerts and finished off with a fireworks show out over the Bay, right behind the Pier the concert is held on, put on by a radio station. Work purchased the tickets for everyone which was great. However since this was my first time at the event, I did not know that the line to get in started first thing in the morning, so we got in line about 4pm, when the concerts started, well the line was over 1.5 miles long winding all the way down the Embarcadero. Luckily about a mile down the line, my boss Gary was there with his son, and with no cops around they waved us in. So indtead of an hour wait we only had about a 30 minute wait. CRAZY!! I guess 50,000 people were in the event on the Pier and over 350,000 gather in the city and in Oakland to watch the fireworks. I forget how big this area is sometimes. Two of the concerts were ok, but they had GUSTER! and you know i LOVE THEM! However, when the sun dropped the temperature plummeted. We were prepared to be sitting out with it somewhere in the 50's but it was easily mid 40's if not low 40's. So from about 7:30pm and on, I was pretty much attached to Travis so we could try and keep each other wamr, lots of people didn't stay for the fireworks because they were shaking it was so cold. Being out on a Pier the wind just blew and cut right through every layer you were wearing. My warm coat was no longer warm. But the fireworks show was the best one by far Trav and I had ever seen and well worth chattering and freezing. After the show, we got out as fast as we could and cranke the heat up in the car, which when the heat finally blew, I was so cold it stung to feel the warmth.
Sunday was a nice day of rest and errands. This upcoming weekend sounds like it is going to be a great weekend, more of an adventourus one and of course the running. Which if anyone is keeping track, I am down to 2 weeks before the marathon, yikes! So we hope to see lots of you when we are in Oregon for Memorial Day weekend. Stay in touch!
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Arizona Trip
So I know it has been a while since my trip to Arizona to visit Trav while he was down for work, well I just haven't had time or energy to post anything yet. The tip was fantastic. Trav has been in Arizona, Phoenix, since April 22 and I am very ready for him to come home. I went down the weekend of the 27-29 and got a rental car so we could go all over the place, which we did. I flew down Friday afternoon and met up with Trav at the hotel about 6:30pm, and it was so great to feel the heat, be able to wear a tank top, short skirt and flip flops, to actually feel like summer was coming, and was there in Phoenix. Trav had the night all planed out so we dropped my bag off and got back in the car for a dinner date.
We drove out to Tempe, probably South Tempe I am guessing. We parked at the bottom of this hill and up on the top was the restaurant Trav had made reservations at. The place was called Rustler's Rooste and it was so cool. It was all decked out in Western Decor, saddles, horse shoes, live country band, the servers wore cowboy hats, and boots, the whole nine yeards. By the time we got there, we were both starving so we get this meal called the Cowboy Meal or something to that extent in which we got bread and biscuits, salad, and the whole platter of meat (see the picture below with Trav and I and that is only like half the food maybe). After we finished off our wine, beer and meal I swear I couldn't eat anymore, but of course we had to have dessert. We had the funniest dessert. It was called Cowpie. So just imagine what a cowpie would look like, that is what the dessert looked like. It was a ice cream cake basically. It had an oreo cookie crust, filler with coffee ice cream and a hard chocolate topping. I looked like poop, but it was the best poop I have ever tasted, well the only one actually. LOL The rest of the night we just relaxed and talked and crashed early so we could enjoy our full day Saturday.
Saturday we got up kind of late, had a quick breakfast then headed out to explore north of Phoenix. Trav had heard about a place called Montezuma's Castle, a state park, that is famous for its 500 year old pueblo dwelling. We get out there and we thought you would be able to walk through it or at least up to it, nope. LOL So we walked over in front of it looked at it, said well that is cool, read about the building and what little is known about the tribe that built it then turned around and left. Nothing exciting. The next stop, after a few bathroom breaks (Trav hates me and my small bladder) we made it up to Sedona for lunch, which we did, loved the view from this second story cafe we had found. We then headed up to Slide Rock.
Slide Rock was so amazing. It is this little canyon that is bathed in sun till about 5-6pm and has this creek running through the middle of it. The creek has carved a natural slide through the rocks that people can slide down because the rocks are so smooth from the water running continuously through them. Trav and I both slid down it once before we tried to take pictures, but I guess Trav wore the wrong shorts so it gave him a major wedgie so the first time was his only time. HAHAHA, but I did it a few more times, so Trav could get some pictures and it was so much fun! However there is one spot that hit the same spot on my hip everytime, left a sweet bruise. LOL The price to pay for a great time. We went and found a spot away from everyone and laid there for a bit till the park closed to just enjoy the heat and the sun, it was so wonderful so be able to just feel the suns rays on our skin.
We drove back to Phoenix once the park closed, which only took about an hour and a half, and I think I slept a lot of the way LOL I can sleep anywhere, especially in a car with sun beating down on me. We went back to the hotel and got cleaned, because besides playing in the water, while we were walking around I slipped on the rocks and totally soaked all my clothes. Trav found this great sushi place in downtown Scottsdales to try since I had been craving sushi for weeks. Since neither of us have ever been anywhere, we didn't know what to expect, and we found out the Scottsdale is where all the pretty people hangout. LOL The restaurant was great though, and we walked around afterwards, stopped for Gelato and sat outside and people watched. It was great!
Sunday was another fun day, we got up early, ate breakfast and went to the gym. We tried to find one close to the hotel, nope. LOL So we ended up back in Tempe, which the gym was nice and big. I got in a nice sprint workout doing about 5 miles and trav got to lift and do a little cardio. Felt great to be active after feeling like we were eating the whole weekend. After the gym we wanted to find a water park or go float the Salt River, just because it was 100 degrees and being in the water just felt so nice and we wanted to enjoy the heat. Well I guess neither open until at least the middle of May so that was a no go. So we decided to go to the zoo. The zoo was ok, but we still had fun, plus it was Mexican Day. I am not kidding. All the Spanish Radio Stations were there, all the exhibitors were in Spanish, that was the theme. Plus the zoo wasn't really broken up into different areas around the world, they just showed African animals and animals in Arizona. I guess Penguins wouldn't do well in the heat. :)
All in all the trip was a blast and Trav gets back this Friday and lluckily no more trips till Memorial Day. :) Have a great day everyone and hope to hear from you guys!!!
We drove out to Tempe, probably South Tempe I am guessing. We parked at the bottom of this hill and up on the top was the restaurant Trav had made reservations at. The place was called Rustler's Rooste and it was so cool. It was all decked out in Western Decor, saddles, horse shoes, live country band, the servers wore cowboy hats, and boots, the whole nine yeards. By the time we got there, we were both starving so we get this meal called the Cowboy Meal or something to that extent in which we got bread and biscuits, salad, and the whole platter of meat (see the picture below with Trav and I and that is only like half the food maybe). After we finished off our wine, beer and meal I swear I couldn't eat anymore, but of course we had to have dessert. We had the funniest dessert. It was called Cowpie. So just imagine what a cowpie would look like, that is what the dessert looked like. It was a ice cream cake basically. It had an oreo cookie crust, filler with coffee ice cream and a hard chocolate topping. I looked like poop, but it was the best poop I have ever tasted, well the only one actually. LOL The rest of the night we just relaxed and talked and crashed early so we could enjoy our full day Saturday.
Saturday we got up kind of late, had a quick breakfast then headed out to explore north of Phoenix. Trav had heard about a place called Montezuma's Castle, a state park, that is famous for its 500 year old pueblo dwelling. We get out there and we thought you would be able to walk through it or at least up to it, nope. LOL So we walked over in front of it looked at it, said well that is cool, read about the building and what little is known about the tribe that built it then turned around and left. Nothing exciting. The next stop, after a few bathroom breaks (Trav hates me and my small bladder) we made it up to Sedona for lunch, which we did, loved the view from this second story cafe we had found. We then headed up to Slide Rock.
Slide Rock was so amazing. It is this little canyon that is bathed in sun till about 5-6pm and has this creek running through the middle of it. The creek has carved a natural slide through the rocks that people can slide down because the rocks are so smooth from the water running continuously through them. Trav and I both slid down it once before we tried to take pictures, but I guess Trav wore the wrong shorts so it gave him a major wedgie so the first time was his only time. HAHAHA, but I did it a few more times, so Trav could get some pictures and it was so much fun! However there is one spot that hit the same spot on my hip everytime, left a sweet bruise. LOL The price to pay for a great time. We went and found a spot away from everyone and laid there for a bit till the park closed to just enjoy the heat and the sun, it was so wonderful so be able to just feel the suns rays on our skin.
We drove back to Phoenix once the park closed, which only took about an hour and a half, and I think I slept a lot of the way LOL I can sleep anywhere, especially in a car with sun beating down on me. We went back to the hotel and got cleaned, because besides playing in the water, while we were walking around I slipped on the rocks and totally soaked all my clothes. Trav found this great sushi place in downtown Scottsdales to try since I had been craving sushi for weeks. Since neither of us have ever been anywhere, we didn't know what to expect, and we found out the Scottsdale is where all the pretty people hangout. LOL The restaurant was great though, and we walked around afterwards, stopped for Gelato and sat outside and people watched. It was great!
Sunday was another fun day, we got up early, ate breakfast and went to the gym. We tried to find one close to the hotel, nope. LOL So we ended up back in Tempe, which the gym was nice and big. I got in a nice sprint workout doing about 5 miles and trav got to lift and do a little cardio. Felt great to be active after feeling like we were eating the whole weekend. After the gym we wanted to find a water park or go float the Salt River, just because it was 100 degrees and being in the water just felt so nice and we wanted to enjoy the heat. Well I guess neither open until at least the middle of May so that was a no go. So we decided to go to the zoo. The zoo was ok, but we still had fun, plus it was Mexican Day. I am not kidding. All the Spanish Radio Stations were there, all the exhibitors were in Spanish, that was the theme. Plus the zoo wasn't really broken up into different areas around the world, they just showed African animals and animals in Arizona. I guess Penguins wouldn't do well in the heat. :)
All in all the trip was a blast and Trav gets back this Friday and lluckily no more trips till Memorial Day. :) Have a great day everyone and hope to hear from you guys!!!
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