Hanging out with Long Lost Ski Friends
My friend Nick, who I met many years ago at Straightline Ski Camp and have since hung out with at ski camps, Ironmans, New Orleans, and NYC is in town to run the California International Marathon this weekend. Our friend Jason, also from ski camp, came down from Reno to hang out, also bringing his brother.
Nick and I had a fun day being tourists around the Norcal Coast. I brought him around SF in the morning to see some non-touristy neat “only in San Francisco” stuff, and then in for lunch we went to the world’s greatest sandwich shop and Gray Whale Cove Beach. We met Jason and his brother for dinner in Pescadero at Duartes.
Nick, Jason, and Kevin are all crashing at our pad tonight. Tomorrow our friend Amy is driving up from Stanford and I am cooking EVERYBODY BREAKFAST! Ack! That’s five people (including me and Earl). No pressure, Greene. I’ve never cooked breakfast for that many people before; hope it goes well :-/
Tomorrow late-morning, Nick and I are driving up to Sacramento for the race while Amy plays tour guide to Jason and Kevin.
Whirlwind of a weekend.
For once I am on the ball with pics (meanwhile I still haven’t gotten my Thanksgiving and Halloween ones edited, but… working on it!):
Linus at our picnic spot:
Hey whatcha got there? Is that a sandwich?
Nick wisely guards his sangwich from ravenous hound:
Really not a bad place for a picnic lunch
Down at the beach it was time to PLAY!
and run!
and dig!
keep digging!
WHOS GOT THE BALL?! I’VE GOT THE BALL!
and climb on rocks while the fog rolled in
come on, let’s go explore!
we went to the harbor at half moon bay and went out on the piers to see the crabbing boats
met up with Jason and Kevin at the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company for a beer (and sat outside by a fire pit, it was awesome)! Jason has some great license plates:
Duartes for dinner was perfect. Hurrah for oyster season (I’m not sure why, but I have been CRAVING oysters lately… enough that I am contemplating attempting to cook this oyster wild rice casserole from Paula Dean. These ones hit the spot.)
Cream of artichoke soup was also scrumptious, though less photogenic:
Long lost friends reunited! I only get to see these guys about twice a year, but when I do it’s such a treat, and we tend to catch up right where we left off. Just such great guys all around. Love them!
We ordered a WHOLE olallieberry pie “to go” and brought it home to share with Earl, who was working late. I thought this was a nice touch since Earl is sweet to put up with me having random skier dudes (he’s met Nick many times, so not really random) crashing at our pad
However… while we were waiting and waiting for Earl to get home, it was SO TEMPTING to eat the pie! We were dying!! We tried to kill time by playing rummy:
Fun day 
Fun night! Off to Sacramento tomorrow for the race… after cooking what will hopefully be a class-act breakfast. I’m doing this prosciutto, tomato and baked egg recipe. Hope it turns out well.
ps- GOOD LUCK NICK ON SUNDAY!!!(he’s hoping to qualify for Boston… I bet he will)!
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Great fun all round!
loved Linus at the beach with your friends! he’s a corgi! I hope all shared their sandwiches with him! loved also the picture of him with your friends while you played rummy!
good friends are sooooo important even if you only see them a few times a year
you will do fine making breakfast for everyone!!! it will be delicious and filling and absolutely scrumptious
just make sure the pooch gets some too!!
betty
I sooooo approve of the STR8LINE shirt!
And I’m a little afraid of eating oysters like that.
Meow, meow.
I don’t like raw oysters either.
But it looks like you had a fun weekend.
Linus looks like he had fun, too
and is healthy again.
Glad of that.
If you like raw oysters you should check out Tomales Bay Oyster Company off highway 1 (if you haven’t already). It’s only an hour or so from the city. I went a couple weeks ago with some friends for oysters and BBQ. They’re dog friendly so we brought Momo with us, too!