Best weekend EVA!

This past week/weekend was 4th of July and because I work for such a lovely company, we were granted off on Friday, July 5th at last minute.  My weekend is dubbed the "best weekend eva" because I did exactly what I enjoy in near-perfect ratios.

We had a crazy fun day at Stinson Beach on the 4th. The picture below pretty much sums that up. Lots of beers and laughs.

Travy on top of a mound of girlzzzzz

Then, I'm going to pretend that the next day didn't happen because that was a "recovery" day.

So, now we've fast-forwarded to Saturday. Travy and I woke up around 8, watched the ladies Wimbledon final over Ezekial sprouted toast with almond butter, coffee, and a smoothie. Then, we set out for TV valley where we ran 12-13 beautiful (foggy) miles. We started out together, but I can't hang with him on the hills, and it doesn't bother me in the least bit anymore when he goes ahead. In fact, I kind of like rolling along at my own pace - running how I feel. Saturday night was spent in Alameda because I had a wedding dress fitting and convinced my handsome man to come along for the ride (i.e., drive me). But that was ok with him because we got to enjoy an amazing dinner at Burma Superstar. Drooling just thinking about that rainbow salad.

OK, so now it's Sunday funday (you f*cking f*$ks)!! And I'm trying not to think about the fact that my 4 day weekend is winding down. Travy and I have another perfect morning, almost identically mirroring Saturday except we watched the men's Wimbledon final instead (yay Murray!) Then it was time to pull out the (new) map and plan our adventure.

Map of Mt Tam and our written instructions for the day

13 miles perfectly mapped out around Mt. Tam. It didn't go anywhere near as we planned, but we still managed to circumnavigate Tam and run 13 miles despite unintentionally ending up near Lake Lagunitas with very little water left in our bottles. PERFECT!

We parked by Mt Home Inn on Panoramic Highway and naturally, we were STARVING after that run. So we decided to give the Mt. Home Inn restaurant a try. And it was a homerun. Coffee, beer, po-boy (for Travis), and bratwurst (for me)...and we were happy as clams on the wooden deck looking out over Mill Valley.

Cheers from Mt. Home Inn!

Food in our bellies, we decided to check out the nearby German Tourist Club, which is only open to the public 10 times a year.  As I reminded Travis, that's less than once a month!!!! We hiked about a mile and a half to reach it and it was a total scene but so worth the little trek. We split a $20 pitcher of Trumer Pilsner and sat on the steps basking in the sun and taking in the scene below.

Scene

That pretty much concluded the most wonderful day. We drove home (I had to drive after losing a Wimbledon-based bet) and watched the Real World Portland and Naked and Afraid, our two fav shows right now, obvi.

Sad to see the weekend go, but thankful for so many awesome trail adventures. 

Enroute to the top of Tam (#latergram)