Alameda has street cred

Today I was reading the magazine San Francisco and ran across a department called, Street Detail which had listed all the great features of Alameda. I was not surprised one bit. The writer Peggy Nauts, which by the way is a sweet name, said "Alameda may finally be achieving that perfect, elusive mix of hip and historic." Some of the places she listed we have tried or walked into, but there are more I have never even heard of. I thought it was funny how there was an image of Matt Wong, (the owner of the retail store District). He has a softball team named District, (obsessed much?) who are in Kc's league. Kc's team just played them 3 weeks ago and competed significantly better than their first attempt which resulted in a slaughter. Kc's softball team, Boom Goes the Dynamite is playing tonight - maybe I will bring the camera and report if, I mean when they get a W. Click on the images for high res. scanned art.

scanned image of the article

Alameda pics, I believe the bottom right image is Central, the street right next to our apartment.

A love and hate relationship

When the word muffin top comes to mind it is both good and uncomfortable. I swear if my work brings these box of muffins around more often I will have a full blown muffin top. But these muffins are so delicious. They are from the Walnut Creek Baking Company. I think I ate 3 muffins today before 1pm. mmmm!

Chalk Full of Sand

I love living in Alameda and having enough abandoned parking lots from the old Naval Base to create the Guinness Book of World Record for the largest chalk drawing EVER. While Kc was diligently working for Orkin, Whitney and Bret Baker and I biked over to the Alameda Point and started to leave our marks, after a mandatory pit stop to Lee's Donuts.

I decided to draw a bathing beauty in a neon green inter-tube and a polk-a-dot one piece.

Bret and Whitney's very edgy graphics. As well as the friendly bicycle.

Brad and Monica came to join the fun. We are trying to show how dirty you can get beating a Guinness World Record. The people in charge outlined the entire image and kids from schools nearby and the rest of the community came to fill in the whole graphic. After the whole drawing was complete a satellite took a picture from above.

On the bike ride home we found an annual sand castle contest on Alameda's South Shore. We saw such a huge crowd and doubted it was for Alameda's quality beaches. These are some of the castles/creations made.

All together a perfect Saturday morning.

Softball and cupcakes

Happy Birthday Joel, Boom Goes the Dynamite really improved last game and are seriously due to win.

I bet you can't hit me with a quarter

The other weekend we rode the Alameda ferry to a Giants game. Which is really fun because it drops you off right behind the stadium. We met up with Joel, and his cousin and son who he lives with in Redwood City. It was the first time that Kc and I have gone to AT&T park and it was really fun except for the game we watched. The Giants were playing the Padres and there was not too much action. But after the 7th inning we went on a walk around the stadium which was pretty cool. Behind the outfield there is a deck that you can look over and see the water and we found a guy walking around with a sign that said "I bet you can't hit me with a quarter." All I can say is that it definitely worked, cause we tried. It looks like we were dressed for winter in May. It is a pretty chilly stadium.

top whodis reunite

It has been a while since we have posted, but here are a few posts of what we have been doing lately. Over Memorial weekend we had a reunion with 3 couples that we love. We hung out with Jenna and Tyrel Jensen, Jason and Amy Storrs and Kim and Trent Sorensen with their little baby Aiden. We had a lot of fun watching movies, barbecuing hanging out and playing guitar hero. We are going to have to make a habit of this.

Make-up time

So Tuesday of this week I went to the Dentist, probably the first time in 2 years. It is really embarrassing, it might have even been longer, but of course they found 2 cavities. So today I just got back from getting two fillings. I am starving but I can't eat or drink cause I would probably drool all over my keyboard at work. My mouth feels huge and when I try to swallow with my lips closed my top lip stays straight but the bottom one pushes all the way to the left of my face. This is awkward, and I have a meeting with my project manager for Diamondbacks in 15 minutes. I honestly hate everything about going to the dentist. Sorry Eric, (my brother-in-law that just graduated from Marquette Dental School) but I have figured out some tips so that when you have your own office you won't have patients that hate coming.
1st: Get some of those cool tv's in the ceiling so you don't have to look at terrible stock photography posters of people in your target age market of 55-75 years old.
2nd: Speak English around your patient during the entire visit, especially when you are diagnosing if they have cavities or not. I was so lost and worried the whole time they were looking at my x-rays. I thought I had like 6 cavities the way they were speaking in Farsi.
3rd: Train your dental hygienist to not jab your gums with the long hard plastic suction tube. And be careful with the water gun, some people have to go back to work after their visit. I left the office with a wet shirt, composite resin on my hand, and very chapped lips.
Now I remember why I let myself not go for 2 years. Other than not having insurance.