2 posts tagged “beach”

We had a great day at the beach yesterday with some wonderful friends. Although it was a bit chilly at first the girls had a great time digging in the sand, collecting rocks, and channeling Devo.

When it was time for the adults to have some fun we traveled down the road to The Pelican Inn for food and beer on the lawn. Again the girls had a blast running up and down the grass and picking flowers. Anya made herself right at home eating off of the other family's plate while we waited for our own food to arrive. She also sported some mighty fine plumber's  crack. Classy!

We've had two great weekends in a row. The weekend before last was the Dipsea. Once again my uncle

came in to run the race in memory of my dad. This year he got into town just a scant few hours before the race started, and although the day was very warm he still managed to finish 247, which is a PR for him! We were all so proud of his performance.

As I mentioned last year the Dipsea finishes at Stinson Beach (in the linked post I mention the difficulty that Roy Rivers had last year in the race, I'm happy to report that he did much better this year and actually won the race!). This year we invited one of Anya's best friends and her family to join us at the finish line. The girls had a blast playing in the sand, the very cold ocean, and picnicing on the grass. Unfortunately I forgot to get any pictures of them playing :(. Next year we are thinking about renting a beach house for the weekend since everyone had such a great time.

This past weekend we had our annual photo shoot with the fabulous Terri Loewenthal. (See last year's photos here). Once again she was a complete pleasure to work with and took some really great photos of Anya and the whole family Here are some of my favorites

And the whole collection can be found here

After our photo shoot we decided to take advantage of our location and drop into Chez Panisse to see if they could fit us in for lunch. We got there right at 11:30 and lucked out getting a table. I believe that we were seated by Alice Waters herself! The food was delicious and Anya behaved really well even though lunch took almost two hours.
Father's Day was nice, too. We had breakfast at Peet's, ran some errands, went to the park, and had another yummy lunch. After a nap we met some friends at the park and then ordered pizza at their house while the kids played (mostly nicely) and we talked. All weekends should be so pleasant!