I'm baaaaack and it's a beautiful day.

This is the big rock I keep trying to get to. It's a beautiful morning!

Once again I was up early, so I took a quick walk to the big rock to the north. It was still inaccessible, but I got as close as I’ll be able to get this trip. I came back to the house, ate a quick breakfast, and headed in to town for alignment flow yoga with Christen, the owner of the studio. It was a good class. One funny thing that happened at the beginning is that she had us do the classic stretch where you drop your right ears to your right shoulders. The thing is I’ve been doing that stretch while I’m facing the pool during water aerobics, and I’ve trained myself to mirror it. So I had to think very hard about which side was which. Also I did the best parallel parking I’ve ever done. 

What Dave Saw

Meanwhile, Dave had gotten up and decided to go for a walk to the south, so he headed off in shorts and a sweatshirt, disregarding the forecast. Not a good idea, so he came back to change his soaking wet garments and headed out again. He had a good walk out past the arch of Arch Cape.

When I got back Tim was up and Dave arrived back at the house not long after. Since the morning forecast was a little grim, we decided it would be a good day for Pig’n. And it was – parking available in the parking lot, and too short a wait for the table to explore all the wonderful items they had for sale. My favorite was the giraffe popper. I still love having Tim here, but he did eat one of Dave’s bacons that would usually be mine.

After lunch we walked around town a bit. Dave and Tim looked for a wallet for Tim and I went to West of the Moon and bought 3 shirts and a dress, all much on sale. I may have to go back. Also I went to Bruce’s because Dave’s selection of taffy had left out most of my favorites, plus I needed some salty licorice.

We stopped at home briefly so Dave and I could change our pants to shorts and our footwear to hiking boots, then headed to the North Neahkanie Mountain trailhead (.2 miles past MP 40) where we dropped off Dave’s car. We all continued on in the Expo to Neahkanie Mt Road (just past Sunset), where I managed to find the two gigantic potholes at the entrance to the road. We had been excited at the idea of hiking the trail in the sunshine, but once again it was nice here and foggy there. 

How We Get Pictures

We had a very good hike, though, and Tim had a great imaginary mountain bike ride. The trail was quite muddy from the rains, and mostly just goes up, and then down. Last time we did it my knee was very painful. This time I was aware that it wasn’t completely happy, but it was a much nicer descent. The sun had come out completely for the last bit of the hike, which was very scenic but also very hot. Tim is a much faster hiker than we are, so he had to do some waiting around. At least he didn’t do any jumping out from behind things.

We retrieved both cars and Tim drove me home in the Expo, which required a lot of me saying “slow down, slow down” and holding on to things. It was quite safe, just faster than I would have gone. Then we had a nice pause for relaxing before it was time to hit the Bistro for dinner. The Bistro was excellent as always, although my chicken satay was more like chicken teriyaki. Dave had the shrimp with avocado and chili-lime sauce, which was excellent. They both had the chocolate ganache torte for dessert, which worked out well for me because I had the buttermilk cake and ate Dave’s crust. He is a very generous person!

After dinner we met Jen and Tabetha at the Coaster for Let’s Murder Marsha, a comedic farce based on 1970 and 80’s sitcoms. It was very fun, even if I did have to sleep through the first act. We’ve been going to productions at the Coaster for several years now and it’s fun to see our favorite actors in different roles.

Afterwards it was time to come home and have some screen time, and then play some Harry Potter trivia. It's based on the movies so I don't play.

It was a beautiful day!