Making beer

It was time for my company's quarterly meeting. The place I work is so cool that this was combined with making beer. Brew it Up is a Sacramento microbrewery where you can either drink the professionally made beer or make your own (under professional supervision). We made 72 bottles of a brown beer that will be ready in a few weeks. Our very talented designer made these labels for our beer.

Catching up

It has been a while since I have had time to write up my adventures....here they all are on one day!

Yosemite

The day after Thanksgiving, we packed up the car and headed for a camping trip to Yosemite National Park. This was somewhat brave as it was pretty cold but the weather was cold and crisp -- a really wonderful time to be there. We camped for two nights, hiked to the North Dome -- it was fabulous. Chris' Mum was visiting for a week and she came along with us

Here we are eating breakfast looking bundled upAnd here we are stopped for a break looking over the valley

Thanksgiving

For the first time since I have been in the US, I didn't travel for Thanksgiving. We stayed at home and cooked a very, very large amount of food. Owen and I are looking a bit sceptical about the tofurkey.....
But it all seemed to turn out OK in the end....

Oranges!

When we moved into our house, we thought that we had a lime tree. We were very excited to have a source of fresh limes just off of our "cocktail" balcony to add to our gin and tonics.
But the fruit ripened 4 months later....and they are oranges. We now have a lot of oranges.....

Yet more football...

Another trip down to San Fran to watch the 49ers play the Seahawks. Again, the right team won. We had a great weekend catching up with people and shopping...breakfast at a cool diner followed by heading out for the game. The game did get a little tense towards the end -- there is nothing quite like 60,000 fans on their feet shouting helpful advice to the players. This time it was "two hands on the ball" to the player who had most recently fumbled the ball......