stuff

Our container is checked into the port of Oakland, due in France in late september! ~7500 pounds of stuff!

Alta .. for the last time in a while?

We drove up to Alta with Christa today, stopping at Awful Annie's as usual. A Ferrari Testarossa was in the lot, which a waiter was admiring. He told me that the cobra that we saw a few weeks ago belonged to the same guy and that the Testarossa only had 30k miles on it.

packing

Eve of shipping

getting all the stuff together. Hoping nothing critical ends up on a boat for 6-8 weeks.

Visa

got it today! Also tried on the Oakley Jawbones ... amazing optics, even if they make you look like a bit of a geek

got my visa!

after a loooong morning at the consulate.

Monday evening ride

Guh?

decent wheels, ultegra components, carbon fork and ... platform pedals?

Tesla

With clean air stickers!

Aston Martin

with a GT-R thrown in as a bonus. Will I miss seeing all the exotics? Maybe a little.

prius turbo

We made a very quick trip up to Alta to get our sleeping bags for the big move. Tons of traffic on the way back, and we were behind this:

A prius with shiny aftermarket exhaust tips! hilarious!

Zoe Hangboard workout

Zoe's first ice cream cone

She has gotten bites of parental ice cream cones before (including a chocolate chip cone which sent her into a caffeine fueled rampage for hours), but this was her first "Zoe-only" cone.

Alta

We went up to Alta with Christine and Terry, with a stop at Awful Annies (slooooooooow service) and the American River. The American river felt like a hot tub in comparison to the liquid nitrogen cooled waters of the Bear River, so we all (zoe included) floated around the river. I was happy that I remembered our Five Ten river tennies, which kept my feet dent and gash free.


After taking a few minutes to rest, I extended the deck railing and added a small triangular deck section in anticipation of one day finishing the railing for real.

Meanwhile, the ladies went off in search of blackberries.

After grilling some chicken and corn, we fired up the rotenburo.

Zoe put up her usual fuss about the tent, but was much better than previous attempts. Here she is, full of energy the next morning

head sweat

I just discovered that the TOP of my head sweats when I eat hot food. What the hell?

A new toy for zoe

Thanks Claude!

Softball

Today we played (and beat) the dreaded Invitrogen team in our IM softball league. We were doing some aggressive bas running, and during my dash for home, I hooked my thumb into my pocket tby accident and heard a soft ripping sound. It turned out that my thumb had split my shorts down the seam, and I spent the next inning looking for someone with duct tape.

Kenji's 80th Birthday Party

Was at his studio:

with grandma:

and grandpa:

Grandpa is 45.7 times older than Zoe.
Kenji and Gail:

Kenji as always had brought a bizarre Japanese snack food, which looks like... well let's face it, it looks like cat poo

But Zoe didn't seem to mind the appearance:

Smart's crossing

Kenji and I built an anti-Zoe railing, followed by a trip down to the river. Christina spotted a rattlesnake on the path! Here's Zoe enjoying the water


Zoe and the corn

Shelby Cobra

replica? who really cares.