and more baseball. All Stars continued – a good way to do it – many games, many opportunities to play against other skilled players and teams. Eventually, the road ends, just one team moves on. Monday the 16th:
Wednesday.
And Wednesday was the end of the road for the River Park team.
Lennore organized a ride that started in the small town of El Dorado, went through Placerville, and ended near Camino.
Galib, Kimberly, Kathy, Sheila, Lennore, me, Dani:
The end of the paved trail. There’s about 3/4 mile more dirt trail ahead. Long-range plans (not in my lifetime) include a trail all the way to the Nevada border. That would be so cool.
Snack time before we headed back with lots of fast downhill.
Great ride, 27 miles round trip. Afterwards, Galib, Kimberly, Sheila, Lennore and I had lunch on the patio at
I had brunch this morning with Tina who was my Phase 3 student teacher at Westside Charter School many many years ago. She has been a staff member at Creative Connections Art Academy for the past 20 years or so. It was so great to catch up.
Thursday evening at City Hall.
Because of my travels, I haven’t seen Jim and Lucy in a while so today was especially nice. Our standard meal is I bring a pizza and salad and Lucy pours the champagne.
Elaine, Terri and I went to Chevy’s for appetizers and drinks on Monday .. after finding out two of our N Natomas choices were closed. A perfect late afternoon on the patio.
The ride started at the Jibe office.
I met the group at Tanzanite Park. There were 15 cyclists. Brenda took the picture, Lori led the ride. I was in the back with Laurie who was sweeping.
Just across the Tower Bridge in W Sacramento, the Tree House Cafe is very bike friendly. Bikes can enter through an opening in the chain link fence.
Jibe bought everyone coffee. I stayed with the bikes.
Carson made the River Park All Star team. The first game was Wednesday evening.
It was the bottom of the 5th inning, the score was tied at 11-11, and we were nearing the 2-hour limit when the home team (us) surged ahead and won. Whew!
Adrienne, Linda, Kathy and I got together this morning for a long-overdue visit.
A fun interruption at the golf tournament. Gia found on social media an invitation to Cake-Nic at William Land Park at 1:00. Sophia also liked the idea and they each made a cake. However they were both busy with the golf tournament at that time, so the moms (Thais and Zoya, and me) delivered the cakes and hung around.
This get-together was organized by friends who go to the same gym to work out or they take yoga classes together. One of them put it out on social media where Gia saw it.
Everyone was very friendly, we didn’t know anyone. Everyone brought a cake and a knife. All the cakes were homemade although one came from a bakery (tall one with suns).
Once all the cakes had arrived, it was time to cut. Large cake boxes were distributed and everyone took a slice of each cake. My favorite was a carrot mango cake with coconut frosting.
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