Turkey Trot
This morning, I ran my first race since Kumquat was born. It was especially cool because I also got to run with Ranee on her first-ever 5K!
The race started outside of my house, went along Embarcadero, turned left onto Howard, then up 7th St. to end at City Hall.
At the 3-mile mark, Jamie handed Sophie over to Ranee and she ran with her in her arms across the finish line. That was pretty cute.
We were rewarded with a long-sleeved shirt that said “Jog your giblets off!” on the back. Haha. Funny. Also, instead of taking Muni, we ran another mile to the Peet’s on the way home and then walked the rest of the way back. I certainly earned my Thanksgiving feast this year!!
On Friday night we went to the Embarcadero Center once again to celebrate the start of the holiday season. We started at Sens for Happy Hour and met up with Ranee, Sophie, and Jamie.
Some of us got stuck outside of the restaurant while the fireworks were going off but we all made it inside eventually. We all had a good time hanging out and decompressing from a very hard work week.
Kumquat woke up for a little bit to see the lights too. It’s still pretty as ever and makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
It’s so cool that Jason and Jia are here in California so we can actually celebrate birthdays together now. Happy Birthday, DiDi! Thanks for planning a fun night out, Jia! And thanks for babysitting, Masayas!
On November 2, 2002, we tied the knot. That was ten years ago!! We’ve also been together for 17 years now. Sheesh…1995 was a long time ago.
To celebrate, we both took the day off work and Mirian came to watch Kumquat while we spent the day hanging out together. After I got a long-overdue haircut, we headed out to Hog Island Oyster Co. for one of our favorite meals. 
We ordered almost everything on the menu (again) and walked out of there stuffed and 
Next stop was Tiffany & Co. No, I didn’t get anything shiny. It’s our tradition to go there to get our rings cleaned and polished. It’s one of those courtesy things that we take full advantage of every year.
For dinner we went to Coi. It’s a Two-Michelin Star restaurant that we’ve had on our list for a while. Jia came over to babysit Kumquat and we had a long 3-hour-12-course meal with a shared wine pairing. All the dishes were good and some were really interesting in presentation and flavor.
The most beautiful plate was a beet rose on goat cheese and a bed of rose ice that was intricately assembled using very thinly sliced beet “petals”.
Jes’ favorite was the grilled abalone on nettle-dandelion salsa verde.
This was one of our three desserts: grapefruit with ginger tarragon meringue. There was also a little dot of essence (on the left) that we had to rub on our wrist to smell while we ate the dessert.
My favorite dessert was a really yummy frozen lime sorbet covered in a lime marshmallow. It was also toasted on top.
Meanwhile, Kumquat was home with Jia and they played, took a walk, and had her usual bedtime routine.
Happy 10th Anniversary, Jes! I love you and can’t wait to see what’s in store for us in the next 10 years.
It’s Halloween AND Giants Day today! Wow. That’s a lot of stuff going on in the city. Mirian even took Kumquat to the parade that went along Market Street this morning in hopes of catching a glimpse of the World Series Champions.
I wore my tiger costume to work today but we didn’t do anything special once I was home. As usual, there was no trick-or-treating in our building so we still have a huge bag of candy here for us to enjoy. Heh Heh. Kumquat didn’t wear her elephant costume today but she gets to wear it tomorrow for a special storytime at the library.
It was a quiet Halloween night for us…just Kumquat and her two pumpkins…next year we’ll take her outside. Promise.
I wore my tiger costume from a few years back and Ranee and Jamie dressed as peanuts. Very clever.
Rowan dressed up as a doggie but he didn’t like wearing the hood.
There was trick-or-treating along the main street with all the stores. We didn’t actually pick up any candy but we did go inside the Apple Store and Kumquat was given a magnet with the Apple logo on it.
For brunch, we went to Stacks and Kumquat got to sit in a highchair for the first time. I think she liked watching Rowan and all his hijinks that morning.
Later in the evening, we drove over the bridge to Downtown Oakland to meet up with Mai and Ranee. We tried going to Make Westing but their liquor license didn’t allow babies. So we went across the street to Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe and sat out on the patio for drinks and food. It also happened to be on the Hella-ween 5-mile race route. 
So we watched the runners go by and our witches stopped to take a photo with us. Once they finished, they joined us for some more drinks and food and lots of laughs.
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