Here today, gone to napa...

we are going to napa for crush (when they pick the grapes) this weekend.

we were just there in july so this will be our second trip of the year!!!

meeting jeff's brother and sister in law for a mini vacation.

stay tuned for another crazy adventure in food...

back home again!!!

after 25 long days at the first repair shop (our insurance didn't think some of the repairs were necessary) we had it towed to another repair shop and this is what our poor car looked like. the card board box was filled with parts. It was so sad to see our car in this condition. We never expected it to ever be the same...

they worked on it right away and 2 weeks later, we picked it up today!!!
almost like new... just hope we can keep it that way

short ribs, anyone???

for a while we have been eating some really good short ribs at restaurants. so we decided to make some at home...

here is the recipe we used. we looked on line at several different

ones and this seemed the best and some what easy.


the recipe required making a brine (salt, brown sugar and bay leaf)

2 cups of each. omg!!! that seemed way too salty but we vowed to

make it exactly like the recipe. put the short ribs in for 3 hours, we

sort of got behind and left it in for almost 4 hours....

had to brown each piece, we had 6.



celery, carrot and onion, oh my...




stack of browned short ribs

cooking the veggies, looks pretty good


added wine, chicken stock, short ribs and vegetables. after an hour of cooking.

over all the short ribs were good. forgot to take a picture of the dinner but here are the leftovers. i guess we will try them again but maybe a different recipe...

my poor pot...




it survived our experiment and lives to make another good pot of something.
(believe it or not it was easy to clean per Jeff)

we did it!!! and lived to tell about it....

6am start time...

here we go!!!

hi mickey and minnie



disney's california adventure



the weather is great!!!
cloudy and cool
(so far anyway)

missing mile 1, i guess our photographer

missed that one!!!!

main street, disneyland

back side of disneyland

merrry go round, with characters riding (a little blurry)

(marry poppins and snow white)

belle

mile 3 and we are still in disneyland!!!

disneyland work shops

places where guests normally don't see...

here we go!!! out of the disney parks and

on to the roads. it's a long way till we

get to the honda center

all those people were behind us!!!

mile 4 and water stop

all types of entertainment along the way...
mexican dancers

hula dancers

honda center, home of the ducks (hockey team)

whoo hoo, angel stadium...

we have really been looking forward

to running here!!!

here we go

wow!!!

lots of boy and girl scouts to cheer us

that's me!!! this has been the best part so far.

really tired now...

back to disney's california adventure

only one more mile to go!!!! yeah...

omg!!! the end is near...

hi, clyde, kelly and kai

finish line

hi minnie

got my medal!!! whoo hoo...

high 5 from Kai

it was a lot easier this year!!!

looking forward to the 2010 wdw

half marathon in January...
addition to our collection!!!