finally blogging again

so now that brett is working crazy late hours i am finally getting back to blogging and looking at all your blogs, while i wait for him to get home...
these pics are actually from our halloween trip to yosemite. we traded in costumes and candy for hiking this year, and it was lovely.

music we're lovin...

a couple weeks ago brett surprised me by picking me up early from work, and then he drove me to santa cruz and we went to a mason jennings concert.
i used to be enamored by mason jennings' music a few years ago in college, and after that concert, he's back on my top list of good listens. folky, earthy, and just plain good.

Family Visit Time!

Brett's fam came to visit for conference wkend. It was fun, did a lot of hiking & exploring in san francisco.

more pics from our trip...

friggin awesome tree, huh. this was actually the exact landmark where rachel, josh, and i ended our bike tour down the oregon & cali coast 10 years ago! (that makes me realize i'm really getting old)

it doesn't look like it, but this was a really warm day, and we both jumped into the ocean. this was our own little private beach, accessed by a rickety stairway down a cliff edge. finding this secluded beach was my favorite part of the entire trip. it was hidden from view, and separate from any beach. lovely sand too.

that's me on the sand... soakin up the sun.

this was the seal rock at yaquina head. check out that seal on the left, just chillin and doin a horizontal stunt on the rock. cutie

Oregon was Amazing!

Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport. We climbed all the way to the top!

This was one of my fav parts of the trip - deep sea fishing! this is brett right after he caught a big shiny salmon. then we ate it for dinner. yum-nummers.

THIS was our condo. nice view, huh.

we did a bonfire on the beach one night. we roasted marshies too. the beach is in the background, but it was really foggy, which kinda added to the fun.

tide-pooling one morning there were loads of star fish.