Cold morning!
After breakfast at Goddess and the Baker, we walked along the riverwalk to the starting point of an architectural boat tour.
The Wrigley building:
Next stop: Millennium Park. The Bean:
Looking up from under The Bean:
A sculptural bridge across a busy wide street
to a huge “Play Garden.”
Early dinner at Giordano’s known for their (serves 2-3) deep-dish pizza!
Should say “serves 6”.
Thais, Avery, Carson and I arrived late afternoon – just in time for rush hour traffic. What could be a 15-minute drive from O’hare to the hotel turned out to be over one hour. The taxi driver was quite knowledgeable and shared a lot of facts and information about Chicago.
Dinner at Ramen-San.
I am so grateful for friends who ask to gather walnuts. Thanks Becky.
With no time for outside sun-drying, I took a shortcut and used the oven.
The second playoff game for Christian Brothers against the Yuba City Honkers.
They won! Next game is Thursday.
A new route with Rich Fowler who we met through his role with American River Bike Patrol. Laurie, Brenda and I drove to the Vallejo Ferry Terminal early Tuesday morning. There were 12 of us on this ride.
The first part of the ride to the Golden Gate Bridge was similar to ride we do on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.
We crossed the GG on the bay side, checked out the vista point the rode back across and continued along the shoreline through the Presidio.
Golden Gate Park has a new dragon:
Lunch stop at Java Beach Cafe.
McCovey Cove by the Giants baseball stadium.
And back to the ferry terminal to take the 2:20 ferry back to Vallejo.
Fun day, lots of new things I’d never seen before. Our 34-mile route:
AARP invited local advocacy organizations to an all-day workshop in Hagginwood to learn more how to do a walk audit.
This location – Marysville Blvd between Arcade and Grand Ave – was chosen because the City of Sacramento is moving toward road improvement projects to address this high-injury corridor. We broke into three groups and were given a section of the project to make observations.
The four-lane road plus center turn lane will get a “road diet” – down to two lanes with center turn lane and buffered bike lanes.
Although the project provides many benefits, it does not address the sidewalks which are in terrible condition. Poles and posts need to be relocated and the width of the sidewalk needs to be consistent.
The mobility scooter used the crosswalk then the traffic lane to better access a grocery store.
Regarding the candles, imagine there’s a big one in the tens place plus four ones (skinny candles). In first grade math, that’s 14. (Auntie Holly/candle buyer thought this was birthday #13 – lol). Brooklyn, Leo, Avery, Sophia, Carson
Rita/Lala, Holly, Brooklyn, Avery, Leo, Sophia, Carson, Lenin, Thais, me:
Time to go home, but a few guys stayed to play poker:
Tuesday. I drove out to Justin’s in the morning.
He set up everything for me (yay), brought out the wagon, baskets and rakes.
I raked just three trees and filled the drying rack above.
Wednesday. Minimum days all week at St Ignatius. Perfect. I picked up the boys and we drove out to Justin’s. First stop, the pigs. Getting quite big .. you know what that means, right?
On to walnut gathering. We scooped all the walnuts from the drying rack into 3 grocery bags, these would go home with Avery and Carson. Time to rake.
Drying rack refilled.
Back at home, Avery and Carson continued the drying process on smaller racks.
Friday. Another bagging then gathering trip, but this time, I was carefully observed.
Friday evening at St Patrick’s Academy. Avery is #14.
One of the things Avery’s good at is rushing the quarterback and grabbing the flag before he can throw.
I really liked this field. No grandstands or seating of any kind, so you are able to stand near the sideline and have a great view.
Sunday afternoon at Jesuit. The championship game against Presentation. St Ignatius won!
One of my favorite days of the month: Thursday at Merrilyn’s .. on an actual Thursday this time. Football Dip with corn chips and Blue cheese walnut dip with Waldorf crudités:
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