Happy Fall!

Our Anniversary Trip

Travis here. We always try to take a trip for our anniversary. This year, for our 9th, we decided to take a trip to the Bay Area.

We started in Livermore dropping the kids off with Terri's parents. We then headed to Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito. It was once the Fort Baker military base and many of the buildings were the Officer's quarters. Terri is into all things historic, so she was in heaven.

- the deck at the Cavallo Point bar -

- view from the deck with the Golden Gate in the background -

- Cavallo Point buildings -

For dinner Saturday night we went to Caprice in Tiburon. The food was good and the view was fantastic. The restaurant is about 50 feet left of where Terri is standing. If you look closely, you can see the bridge off the right.

Sunday morning Terri took a yoga class while I watched some football. Then we both went to the Cavallo spa and relaxed in their outdoor heated pool while it rained lightly. It was very relaxing. We could have spent all day there, but we had plans in San Francisco...

One of my favorite bands is Living Colour. It had been about 17 years since I'd seen them live and when I saw that they were coming to San Francisco, I suggested we wrap their concert into our trip.

Terri is a very good sport.

They played at a small club called The Independent. To say they rocked would be the understatement of the year. They are one of the best live bands out there and it was a great show. Best of all, they came out to sign autographs and take pictures after the show.

- Lead singer Corey Glover -

-Drummer Will Calhoun -

- Guitarist Vernon Reid -

and

- Bassist Doug Wimbish -

We spent the night in San Francisco and picked up the kids on Monday. It was a great little getaway.

Terri the triathlete

I did my very first triathlon on 10/10/10. It was a 1/2 mile open water swim, 15 mile bike ride, and then a 3 mile run. It was awesome.

Bats!

We went to the folsom zoo this past weekend. Travis was out of town and I needed something to do. I read in the paper that the zoo was going to have a special bat exhibit. I knew Luke would love that. When we got to the zoo, I asked the person at the entrance where the bats were and he said, "oh, straight ahead, in front of the foxes." I looked straight ahead and saw a lady sitting at a folding table. When I read in the paper that there was a special bat exhibit, I thought they built some sort of big cage for bats to fly around in for the day, but no. The exhibit was actually a lady (named Corky) with her four very small bats that she rescued from the wild. Apparently bats live around here. Who knew? Anyway, she was very nice and was very informative and Luke was really in awe of these bats. (He didn't have inflated expectations like I did.) And to top it all off, the volunteer for the zoo that organized the exhibit, is named Judy and she takes one of my step classes. She is also a wonderful photographer and she takes pictures at all of the zoo's special events and for the zoo brochure, etc. She was there overseeing the event and took all of the following great pictures of the kids and of the bats.

Fairytale Town

I try to do fun things with the kids all of the time. But when Travis is out of town, I try to plan something even more fun to do to help wear the kids out and to help fill the days with happiness. Happy kids = happy mommy. So today, I took the kids into Sacramento to go to Fairytale Town. This is a great little park that is full of play-sets based on fairy tales and nursery rhymes. There are also lots of live animals and the whole place is beautifully landscaped. We saw Charlotte the spider, Eeyore the donkey, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Little Pigs, and Peter Rabbit, to name just a few. Luke got to help water Mr. McGregor's Garden, go through King Arthur's Castle, climb aboard a Pirate Ship, slide down the Old Woman's Shoe, ride in the Little Engine that Could and more! We packed a picnic lunch and really had a great time. I can't wait to go back. (for some reason, the first picture was put into a link so if you want to see Mary's little lamb, click on that big huge long link.) I took all of these pictures with my iphone and getting them onto the blog is a little different than our other camera.)

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