Well, there's no keeping up with us.
We met Dylan and Rachel for an Easter/birthday picnic at Golden Gate Park, yesterday. GGP is one of my favorite places, as we know, already. Everything, including the cherry trees at the Japanese Tea Garden, were in full bloom. Here's a nice shot of the kids in front of one of them. Perfect day! High sixties, little breeze. So, how remarkable that only about 60% of the city had the same idea! Where were the rest of them? (There might be a couple of other spots they could've gone, I'll admit.)
Parking was tricky, since we arrived a bit after noon. We'd made pretty good time, given that we were hauling enough food for a small village of Sumo wrestlers. A team of pack llamas would have been helpful to transport it all from the car to our beautiful spot on the grass surrounded by evergreen trees. But the four of us did the best we could. And it made us even hungrier, which was a good thing.
Rachel's birthday had been Thursday, and Tom's is today, so Easter Sunday, this year, turned out to be the best day to celebrate both of them! Easter landed on the second-earliest possible day in 08. Of course, you remember that it's always the first Sunday after the fifth Thursday after the second Blue Moon after the Leonid meteor shower the of previous even year when Mars is at apogee. So, sometimes it sneaks up on us.
We had quiche and chicken (yes, I bought a couple of roasted chickens--poor babies--but Tom loves them), and M&Ms and other stuff. We topped it off with Lemon Tiramisu Cake. Lovely. Let me know if you want the recipe. It goes together in a jiffy--after about 3 hours of prep. We made a pathetic stab at physical activity (we'd brought an odd assortment flying/hitting things, like Frisbee and Smashball) but otherwise, you can see what we did. Plus there were kids nearby blowing bubbles and operating a cool RC car that gave us illusion of being active.
It was a fine day, indeed. Who knows what excitement lurks today?! It started out with pancakes for Birthday Boy. And I know that I have to work a bit on the compost pile. Then...?? I'll bet you can hardly wait!
