Take a hike

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Originally uploaded by ednalu.

You guys know I’m okay with nature, not ONE with nature, so when David suggested we go hiking this weekend, I was skeptical (do we remember the last outing to Muir Woods?) After all, my idea of a good hike is crossing Market Street to get from Macy’s to Bloomingdale’s.

After dinner Saturday we stopped at our local bookstore and picked up a book on different hikes in the bay area. We decided to try the Ring Mountain loop in Tiburon, not far from Sausalito. It was a perfect day to be outside! The entire hike took a little over an hour, and it wasn’t too steep or hard, and we had a really good time. The views from the top were gorgeous, especially the views of San Francisco. We saw lots of cool rock formations, including some petroglyph rocks. We were also on the lookout for en extremely rare flower called the Tiburon Mariposa Lily, found nowhere else in the world. Unfortunately we were a little early for wildflower season, so we’ll have to go back to look for the lily some other time. Looking for this wildflower made me think of the blubonnets in Texas….I wonder if they’ve started to bloom yet….

To see all out pictures from our hike, click here
*NOTE: For some reason flickr uploaded all of the pictures from most recently taken to last; so the pictures show up with the last ones first! I'll try to fix it, because it is driving me nuts!

Botero in Berkeley

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Originally uploaded by ednalu.

Last weekend we headed out to Berkeley to see the new Botero exhibit. Instead of driving (which would have taken 30 minutes) we took BART out there; it was a longer trek. From the apartment to Union Square was 30 minutes, but then the trip across the bay was something like 20 minutes.
The exhibit was very good; it's always interesting to see the different types of people who come out for art shows. This crowd was a little different though, since Botero is Colombian, there were a whole bunch of Colombianos around.