1 year and counting
We celebrated our one year anniversary last weekend in Mendocino. We are slowly ticking through the Bay Area Backroads deck of cards with things to do that we bought nearly 2 years ago when we moved here. Mendocino is the New England of the West Coast, or that’s what they say at least. The weather was perfect, overcast mostly, although not hot or not cold, just nice. We had some beach time although not much, mostly we ate, took pictures, had massages, and ate more.
We found a really cool chapel (non denominational) in Sea Ranch on our drive up. It was one of our best random finds yet. These are my favorite parts of a trip particularly a road trip, spotting something from the road and checking it out rather than seeking out something you read about in a magazine or something, random finds are just almost always more rewarding.
Mendocino has lots of artists and art so we went to a gallery actually originally in search of a restroom although it turned out to be fun and they had lots of these tall back chairs. We were going to take a picture of everyone we found although then our battery died and that idea lost steam.
I don’t know what got into us although on the trip we also took more pictures using the macro function than I think we realized. We went to a botanical garden which is where most of that happened, if anyone ever wants a picture of a flower we have you covered.
Other than that we went to a lighthouse, had a great dinner, and we took the long way home – we love road trips.
On a side note, this weekend I am still recovering from our Monica Margarita evening Friday night. Monica shared a margarita recipe with me forever ago that I had always wanted to try and we did Friday night. Its equal parts limeade, corona and tequila or at least that’s how we made it. I think there’s a chance its supposed to be one limeade, one limeade tin worth of tequila and then an entire corona, oh and ice. Although we had to have half it for our little party so we did just one half tin of each, pretty yummy.
Oh and I got a new bathing suit this weekend which always inspires a diet, good thing we have 9 miles to log today! Our last run was not very successful although I expect we will get all the way through nicely today.
