450 balloons!! It’s a balloon party! And a double birthday!
Year: 2008
Mountain Play/Hike
A day’s hike up and down Mt. Tamalpais to see a wonderful production of the “Wizard of Oz” by the Mountain Play Association in Mill Valley, California.
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Northern California Pirates Faire
Click through for pictures from a day at the Northern California Pirates Faire in Vallejo, CA:
Mountain Biking on Boggs Mountain
A brilliant mountain biking and camping weekend in the Boggs Mountain Demonstration Forest (north of Calistoga) with the Bay Area Outdoor Adventure Club:
Spring Skiing Costume Weekend
Last ski weekend for the season with the Bay Area Outdoor Adventure Club – in costume at
Squaw Valley USA (“Home of the 1960 Winter Olympics…” – rb) and a great very last day at Sugar Bowl.
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Yuri’s Night at NASA Ames
Click through for a gallery of pictures from the San Francisco Bay Area celebration of Yuri’s Night 2008 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA:
Lunch @ Chuck’s Shop
In the early nineties at FileMaker, we would sometimes go for lunch at this great cheesesteak place near work, Steven’s Philly Cheesesteaks. And the owner, Steve Gauthier, would often be there taking orders. (We would privately refer to him as Chuck, aka Chuck Norris, given his similarities. Yeah, the real Chuck Norris hasn’t aged so well…) Well, years go by and some leave FileMaker… and many more years go by… and some return to FileMaker. So this was a fun photo to take with Frank joining us again both at FileMaker and at Steven’s cheesesteak shop some 14 or so years later:
Simon’s Cat
Another Ski Weekend in Tahoe
Yet another most excellent ski weekend with the Bay Area Outdoor Adventure Club – this time at Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley (“Home of the 1960 Winter Olympics…” – rb)
Ralph’s 40th Birthday Party
Click through for pictures from Ralph’s surprise 40th Birthday party – at Maggiano’s in San Jose:
SF Fetish Ball
My costume for the San Francisco Fetish Ball this year:
Mountain Biking at Wilder Ranch
A brilliant day for mountain biking near the coast in Wilder Ranch State Park. We got in a four hour tour around the park: Engelsmann to Wild Boar Trail and Old Cabin Trail, over and down and around Enchanted Loop, up to the Eucalyptus grove and then, after a break, on up Chinquapin Trail to the northern border of the park, back down to the intersection of Enchanted Loop to do Twin Oaks Trail around and then finally up again on Wilder Ridge Trail to finish with Zane Gray Trail. Woo-hoo!
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FileMaker Engineering Goes Bowling
The FileMaker engineering team goes bowling again in Santa Clara. Click through for the full gallery:
Another Ski Weekend in Tahoe
Yet another most excellent ski weekend with the Bay Area Outdoor Adventure Club – at Alpine Meadows and Northstar.
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Yet Another Ski Weekend in Tahoe
Yet another most excellent ski weekend with the Bay Area Outdoor Adventure Club – this time at Alpine Meadows and Northstar:
Ski Weekend in Tahoe
Another fun ski weekend with the Bay Area Outdoor Adventure Club – at Squaw Valley and Northstar. Click through for the full gallery of images — including some amusing video clips of Matt and Rajin trying to knock each other out in Wii Boxing:
