Saturday Sunshine
On Saturday morning, Teresa took BART into the city to have breakfast with me and Kumquat. We met up at the Ferry Plaza and had some breakfast sammiches and coffee out in the sunshine and then did a little shopping for some produce. 
Walking back to the house was also quite pleasant.
At noon-ish, I drove T back to Oakland and then I headed over to Lake Merritt for a stroller run around the lake with Ranee and Sophie. We signed up to run a 5K Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning so this was considered one of our training runs.
It was sunny and warm and running with a stroller is hard work! The rough terrain, hills, and dodging people also didn’t make it very easy but we finished 3 miles and got a post-run treat at the Farmer’s Market nearby.
Looks like I got my exercise and plenty of Vitamin D that day!
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.
Jimmy’s on an overseas business trip so we went down to Alameda to hang out with Eleen and Zoe on Tuesday evening. We brought over some tasty Hawaiian food and just hung out. Zoe has put on some cute little cheeks and a belly and it was so neat to see how much she’s changed since we first met her. She’s SO adorable.
Jesse did his monkey dance for Zoe and it worked like a charm. She got to take a little catnap while Kumquat played with her toys.
Jason and Jia wanted to break in their new grill and they just finished furnishing their new place so we went to their apartment for a BBQ on Sunday.
We also invited Jen and Kevin who live nearby. We hadn’t met their little Keenan yet and Kumquat hadn’t met them yet either.
Keenan is such a cute little guy and he slept for most of the afternoon.
But when he was awake he sat and watched our chunky monkey playing with her toys. It was great spending time with Jason and Jia and we got to catch up with the Lams since we hadn’t seen them since before Keenan was born.
They were also so sweet to give Kumquat a box full of cute clothes, some books, and a toy that she loves. Thanks for the gifts, Lams! And thanks for the tasty eats, DiDi and Jia!
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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