Friday, May 30, 2008 - Rest Day in Berkeley, CA We were a little more active on our second rest day. We took a walk down Alcatraz Street, so named because you can faintly see Alcatraz Island if you look straight down the street. There were several interesting buildings along the way and a little park at the interesection of Alcatraz and Adeline. Pat discovered a water fountain that looked like a statue. We didn't make it all the way to the bay - turned out to be a little farther than we thought - but we had a nice walk. When Shane came home from school (she teaches high school), she drove us up a very steep hill just behind their house to see the view of Berkeley from high up. She was disappointed because it was foggier than she thought it would be, but we thought it looked great just the same. Then we went to visit her sister, Becca, who also lives in Berkeley and was busy getting her new apartment ready to move into. Their dad, Milt, was also there helping out. Becca's new apartment is right next to the one she currently lives in, but was a good bit bigger and has a nice sun room. Shane stayed to help paint, while Pat & I went to get some dinner and walked back to Shane's place to put up today's web page. Tomorrow being Saturday, we'll being going out with Shane and Sky to do a little more sight-seeing, so we should have even more great pictures of the area tomorrow. Stay tuned! We've also put up a picture of Marieke and Jim who took us out to dinner in Alpine and hooked us up with Hank & Carolyn, the tandem couple who led us to the beach in San Diego for our wheel-dipping in the Pacific. Since we didn't think to get a picture of Marieke and Jim when we went out to dinner, we asked them to send us one and we're finally getting around to putting it up. |