We closed the condo on Thursday November 9 and moved in on Saturday November 11...   more »

Last Sunday in October... Sara and I had a fairly typical Sunday: early morning workout followed by cleaning the house followed by light lunch followed by a dip in the outdoor pool.

We actually went for the hot tub, but it was closed for some undisclosed reason, so we had to make due with the pool.

Thumbs down on the closed hot tub

Thumbs up on it being warm enough to swim

Ahhhh.... soooo warrrrrrmmmm...

So.  How was your last Sunday in October?  :)

High ceilings... incoming hardwoord floors.  It can only lead to this renovation suggestion by Kevin.

Sara and I performed the condo inspection today, and I took the opportunity to take some photos.   more »

Sara and I have been searching for a condo since April...   more »

REALLY big logs

Labour Day long weekend (I guess it's 'Labor Day' since I'm down here...) found Sara and I in a town called Eureka.  Yes, there really is a Eureka, California.  :)  It's about a six hour drive north of San Francisco.

We went up specifically to visit The Avenue of the Giants, a stretch of road that winds through the giant Redwood forest up there.  This is where the Endor sequences were filmed in Return of the Jedi.

The trees were amazing, but on our way up we took the coastal highway and stopped into a couple beaches on our way up.  We saw some amazing things on our trip, including deer on somebody's driveway and a penguin on the beach!!!  We have no idea what a penguin was doing by itself on a beach in Northern California, but it was pretty cool.  We also saw some not-so-cool things: the rotting carcass of a sea lion and the picked-clean-of-flesh bones of a coyote-sized animal.

Take a look at the photos.