Day 1 - The First Weekend

Tim flew in last night, and we had dinner at 23Hoyt, where I ate too much.

Brown Belt training at NiaStudio ended yesterday, but beloved trainer Caroline Kohles stayed an extra day and team taught with Debbie Rosas, founder and creator of Nia. So I made the pilgrimage in to the mothership for the 10:15 class. It was very fun.

Afterwards I met Tim and Dave at Cornerstone for lunch, then headed to Safeway for some shopping.  This is the first time in many years that Oreos have not been buy one get one free, but I bought two packages anyway – one for Tim and one for the rest of us.  I got home a little before 2:00, packed and showered, and we left for the coast at 2:50. Tim and Dave had loaded the cars, and I got to have Tim in my car for the drive out.

Nothing new at the house to report, but it is good to be here. I went down to the beach as soon as we’d unpacked (which took almost no time at all) but my camera battery was dead, so no photos. I can give the sand report, which is that it is very high. And the starfish report, which is very low. It was a warm sunny day at home, but cool and foggy here. There were a lot of people on the beach trying very hard to have a good time and pretend it was a nice day.

When I came back up Jen and Tabetha had arrived, so we sat and chatted for a bit before heading out to Wayfarer for dinner. Wayfarer food remains at a level of slightly better than good, but their prices are much higher than the food warrants. The desserts are excellent, though. Tabetha and I each had a cylinder of chocolate cake, chocolate ganache, and coffee mousse that was truly excellent, and Dave had very good ice cream.

After dinner we came back to the house. Dave made a fire, and we played 3 rounds of Chronology – an fun and generally fast moving game of putting events in chronological order. You might think that I’d be handicapped by my scanty knowledge of history, but many of the questions are sufficiently obscure to give everyone a fighting chance. Enough of a chance that I won the first game, although it was very close. Dave won the next two.

Because most of us are working it’s going to be a strange week – Josh will only be here tomorrow, Jen and Tabetha only on the weekends, and I’ll be working Tuesday-Thursday.  Dave did a masterful job of getting all our meals organized. It is very, very good to be here.