Category: recreational fun & games
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Travelling fools
Chuck and I are spending a week and a half on the east coast, visiting family and friends. We flew out rfom Long Beach on Jet Blue and landed at Dulles. The plan (okay, the plan I suggested) was to take the Metro from Dulles to downtown Washington. I know, you”re thinking “What Metro from…
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Mud run fun followed by oozing puss-filled goodness
I did my first mud run last Saturday. It was a filthy blast. A mud run, for the uninitiated, is an obstacle course run that always includes, you guessed it, mud pits. Yesterday’s was the the Irvine Lake Mud Run, a 3.8 mile course along the banks of Irvine Lake in Orange County. We were…
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2010 El Prieto Handicap, this year without the El Prieto part 🙁
Chuck’s annual race, the El Prieto Handicap, happened this past Saturday. He’s been running this race (as in, he’s the race director and official handicapper) for nearly 20 years (this was year 17). The course varies from year to year: one year it’s uphill, the next downhill. It runs along the the Arroyo near the…
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So long and thanks for all the fish!
We spent our last day in Paris walking around enjoying the sunshine with lots of other people. We grabbed some baguette sandwiches and small bottles of Bordeaux and headed to the Seine to eat on the riverfront. It was lovely. We also took the little French netbook back to the Virgin Megastore in the Carousel…
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More pics from our trip to England
Meagan has posted the pics she took of our trip on Picasa. You can take a gander here. Miss you already, MAL!
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On the road to … somewhere
I guess we are now officially part of history: travelers completely discombobulated by a volcano in Iceland with a name that nobody can pronounce. We decided, after a phone call to American Airlines (the airline we have our return tickets with) on Saturday that it was best to get out of England and back to…
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