San Francisco

One our favorite (and most exciting) wedding gifts was from Benjamin and it was a mystery vacation. We had to pick the weekend and he would pick the place. As you can tell from the title of this post, the place was San Francisco, CA.

Flew in late Friday night and just went to bed. Saturday morning on Kerri's B-day we slept in until 9 and had a splendid breakfast. We were thinking about touring Alcatraz, but ended up walking all around the city. We walked up to Lombard St, through China town, and all the way over to Golden Gate Park. We managed to get lost a few times and were very tired of walking near the end of the day, so fortunately, my friend Susanne lives near by and was happy to bring us back to our hotel.

The next day we went on an all day adventure with "Incredible Adventures". They picked us up and took us to beautiful Muir Woods. After this, we went to a few small wineries and then out to lunch in Healdsburg. A few more stops in the afternoon and then back to the city. It was a great day. Paradise Ridge was our favorite vineyard and had the best wine.

Bachelor Party

For my bachelor party, nine of us headed up to Craig's parents ski in/out condo in Winter Park. Both Fri and Sat were perfect days to ski/board and the weather was great.
Fri night we played texas hold'em and Craig and Greg ended up winning the pot. I was too distracted by the car bomb I drank. Craig, Nir, and Travis (Craig's other friend) really enjoyed playing poker and wound up playing until 4am.

Sat night all of us went out to dinner to a place called Deno's. Deno's is an upscale restaurant which serves steak, pasta, seafood etc . . . All of us had a wonderful (loud, drunk) time. * * Thank you very much Tre' for picking up the bill. After dinner, we hopped around to a couple bars. Thank you Scott for being the sober driver for the night.

Sun morning I had the bright idea to schedule a snowmobiling trip at 9am the day of the the spring foreword. As you probably guessed, we had a hard time getting up that morning. We still made it to Grand Lake, but 1 hour later then we were scheduled to arrive.

When we arrived at the location the owners were not too happy with us, but everything was ok. I had scheduled a four hour long trip that day, but I was not really not feeling that well, so I managed to get the owners of the shop to charge us for only four hours. Long story short, only Craig, Ben and my brother made it back within the two hour time limit. The rest of us (Scott, Chris, Tre and myself got lost, but luckily made it back in four hours. We were all worried about the fact that the owners of the snowmobile shop might charge us $20 for every 10 minutes we were late, so we hurried as fast as we could back and luckily they were nice to us and only charged us for the 4 hour rate.

What a adventurous weekend ! ! !

National Cross Country Race

On February 10th, Boulder had the best of the best cross country runners compete at the USA cross country championships. The men’s race was a shoot out from the start. Alan Culpepper started off at a comfortable pace while Adam Goucher took the lead early. In the end Alan took first place on the 12K in a time of 37:09, just under 5 minute pace on a very tough muddy course. Adam came in second with a time of 37:35.


Girls ready to go