Beautiful views from Marin County
I was feeling way too overly confident last night. I went to bed around 11.30pm thinking, "Pffffft, jet lag, we'll see about that." I woke around 9am feeling vaguely good and refreshed. I was pleased. But for some reason I thought I'd just stay in bed until 9.30am. Oh, if only I'd gotten up at 9am! I don't know what happened in that hour and a half, but good lord, next thing I know, it is 11am and I feel like I've just been hit by a truck. Or that I've taken an entire bottle of Nyquil. Damn jetlag! So Javier made me breakfast and this Vitamin C energy drink + I took a shower, and we were off!
Today Javier drove me to see some gorgeous million dollar views from the Marin County area. We did an hour and a half walk through Muir Woods, which was lovely. Oh, if only my parents could have gone on this type of walk through the woods, as opposed to the 'roughin' it' hike through the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland ;-) It was an easy walk with awesome surroundings. And we overhood this important fact we shall never forget. A Redwood is a Sequoia and a Sequoia is a Redwood! So remember that for your next trivia night! ;-)
After Muir Woods, we drove up to Muir Overlook and it was AMAZING! On one side was rolling green hills tapering off into a lovely coastline and the other side had some huge hill action with trees on top that made me think it looked like a big ol' dinosaur hanging out in the ocean (the trees being the spikes on its back). My digital camera is dying a slow + painful death and it took me like a half hour to get my first picture, but I am persistent! So I did manage to get some nice shots, even if they took forever!
We stopped for a snack on the way to the beach and we could hear this buzzing/flapping sound so we knew there was a bug in the car, but we didn't know what it was. Thank god I did not know what it was before we got out of the car. It was this enormous dragonfly. It was actually very beautiful - blue and black, but it was so huge, it probably would have felt like a small bat flying in your hair if it had flown to your head. We tried to flick it out of the car, but it was not having any of it! So we left it in the car while we got somem food. I got cheese nachos and probably got more cheese ON me than in my mouth, but I like to get into my food, what can I say? ;-)
We tried to get the dragonfly out of the car again, to no avail. Okay, when I say "we" I mean Javier. I couldn't look as he tried to get the dragonfly out with his sleeve. Then I hear him say, "Um, I think it might be dead!" and I was like, "Really? Why do you think th---OH. OH" When I turned to look at the dragonfly, I saw what he meant. Either that sucker was dead or it was practicing some Yoga, perhaps an advanced goddess pose or something. Ooooops. Poor thing.
That night Javier took me to a yummy Thai place in Berkley and I had a very nice chicken yellow curry and a fantabulous Thai iced tea. MMMMM. I love me some Thai iced tea!
I was feeling way too overly confident last night. I went to bed around 11.30pm thinking, "Pffffft, jet lag, we'll see about that." I woke around 9am feeling vaguely good and refreshed. I was pleased. But for some reason I thought I'd just stay in bed until 9.30am. Oh, if only I'd gotten up at 9am! I don't know what happened in that hour and a half, but good lord, next thing I know, it is 11am and I feel like I've just been hit by a truck. Or that I've taken an entire bottle of Nyquil. Damn jetlag! So Javier made me breakfast and this Vitamin C energy drink + I took a shower, and we were off!
Today Javier drove me to see some gorgeous million dollar views from the Marin County area. We did an hour and a half walk through Muir Woods, which was lovely. Oh, if only my parents could have gone on this type of walk through the woods, as opposed to the 'roughin' it' hike through the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland ;-) It was an easy walk with awesome surroundings. And we overhood this important fact we shall never forget. A Redwood is a Sequoia and a Sequoia is a Redwood! So remember that for your next trivia night! ;-)
After Muir Woods, we drove up to Muir Overlook and it was AMAZING! On one side was rolling green hills tapering off into a lovely coastline and the other side had some huge hill action with trees on top that made me think it looked like a big ol' dinosaur hanging out in the ocean (the trees being the spikes on its back). My digital camera is dying a slow + painful death and it took me like a half hour to get my first picture, but I am persistent! So I did manage to get some nice shots, even if they took forever!
We stopped for a snack on the way to the beach and we could hear this buzzing/flapping sound so we knew there was a bug in the car, but we didn't know what it was. Thank god I did not know what it was before we got out of the car. It was this enormous dragonfly. It was actually very beautiful - blue and black, but it was so huge, it probably would have felt like a small bat flying in your hair if it had flown to your head. We tried to flick it out of the car, but it was not having any of it! So we left it in the car while we got somem food. I got cheese nachos and probably got more cheese ON me than in my mouth, but I like to get into my food, what can I say? ;-)
We tried to get the dragonfly out of the car again, to no avail. Okay, when I say "we" I mean Javier. I couldn't look as he tried to get the dragonfly out with his sleeve. Then I hear him say, "Um, I think it might be dead!" and I was like, "Really? Why do you think th---OH. OH" When I turned to look at the dragonfly, I saw what he meant. Either that sucker was dead or it was practicing some Yoga, perhaps an advanced goddess pose or something. Ooooops. Poor thing.
That night Javier took me to a yummy Thai place in Berkley and I had a very nice chicken yellow curry and a fantabulous Thai iced tea. MMMMM. I love me some Thai iced tea!
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