Provincetown 2011 and a few other things

Patio cafe. Look at the happy waitress behind Carl with a martini. This made Miss B and Carl VERY happy!
Herring Cove Beach. It's the same every year. And I love that.

Douglas at Mac's Shack. This place never disappoints. Makes everyone completely happy as they have sushi, lobster, macaroni and cheese and lots of other delectable goodies. Plus the wine was out of this world!

This was my view all week. Much better than television!!!!

This is a drink from a bar in Portland call the Bye N' Bye. It was huge. You only need to drink one of these and oddly enough, it was called the Bye N' Bye. It's in the Alberta area, just a 15 minute walk from our house. Fun!

This was year 12 in Ptown. For years we have had a long going debate as to how long we have been doing this vacation, when it all started, and so on. We figured it out this year, for 12 long years I have been schlepping my stuff across the US of A to hang out on the beach with the same people whom I usually only see once per year. Very fun vacation. Get up, go to beach, stay all day until the sun almost goes down while passing time reading books, playing in the water, and laughing at one another. Go to the grocery and liquor store on the way home for supplies. Make a yummy dinner or if we are feeling racy shower up and head into town for dinner and drinks. Come home and play cards. Drink more. Go to bed. Repeat. That is Ptown.

This past weekend a friend of our's came up from Arcata for the Bridge peddle. We got to ride on 6 of the 11 bridges in Portland. Traffic was shutdown. Thank goodness we weren't driving anywhere. Wouldn't have gone well. We did the middle length ride, and ended up biking 25 miles that day. It was great but my goodness am I sore!!! Very fun and would do it again I think. Lots of crowds however and it sort of freaked me out a little. Many wipeouts.

Still working on ankle rehab. Wiped out very badly on a run ~4 weeks ago and have been going to physical therapy to rebuild my muscles, apparently I have a medical condition called "ankle instability". Really? I thought I rolled my ankle for no apparent reason because I am a klutz. Nope. Because of all the past injuries and choice of non-rehab, I have worn the poor things out. So I am rehabing and swimming until I can run full time again. Apparently biking helps with that. I did run/walk this morning on my early morning walk. Since moving to Portland we have been getting up at 5am 3 days per week to run and now that I can't run, I walk. It was much easier when it was light out in the morning. What I do like is getting the exercise out of the way early so I can just come home and hang out with Becky. So hopefully within the next few weeks I can run full time again.

We do miss our San Francisco people. A whole lot. We will see how we do once "the darkness" appears and from what we hear, that is in mid-September. Noooooooooooooooo!