Nelson

Hey everyone! Sorry neither of us posted much yesterday (Saturday), but we got into the San Francisco area about 4:30, and by the time we were getting settled in, we'd made plans to have dinner with our friend Emmy Zack. She'd told us about this great restaurant just south of the San Francisco airport, called the Elephant Bar and said it was only about a 30 minute drive from where we're staying...in Marin City. It was...on the way home at 10:45 p.m. Long story short, it took us more than an hour to get to dinner. Fortunately, Emmy was also held up in traffic and didn't have to wait too long for us.

We had a great time at dinner, talking about everything from our trip, to jobs, to sports (which is "surprising" when Emmy and I get together. Poor Dawn. I think she was bored when Emmy and I talked sports...but she was awesome about it). We tried about a million times to get a picture of Emmy in the restaurant that we could post on the blog, but there wasn't enough light for the camera we had with us...and couldn't get a good picture. So...here's our picture of Emmy. We like her because she only has four fingers on one hand and three on the other. And look how skinny she is!
Today we're going to Alcatraz. Dawn has been there before, but I never have. I'm excited about it. Later...we're going to have dinner with my family in the area, which we're very much looking forward to. It's always nice to see these guys when I'm in the Bay Area.

Lastly, and I've already said it once, but for the next year, we Cougars get to bask in the glow of being Apple Cup champions, I have to say how excited I am that we've won the Apple Cup for the second straight year. I think Alex Brink (Cougs' QB) is the first starting QB in school history to beat them twice...unless Mark Rypien did it back in the early 80s. Thanks to XM Satellite Radio, we got to listen to the game during our drive yesterday. We were kinda stuck with the Husky broadcast, but that wasn't too bad. We found Bob Rondeau, the play-by-play guy, to be very fair, professional, and all-in-all, really good. I had expected him to be much more of a Husky "homer", but he wasn't. Chuck Nelson, his sidekick, on the other hand...was. I didn't like him much...but it was satisfying to remember back to an Apple Cup in the early 80s, when Chuck (then an All-American kicker for U-Duh), missed a game-winning field goal in the Apple Cup...and the Cougs won. :)

Time to get to making breakfast now. Take care. We hope you all are well!