Our Life in Oly: January 2010

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Winter Update

It's time for a mid-Winter update. We've been busy with work, life, and hobbies. Brandee started training for the road and mountain bike racing seasons that start in March. Our bike team is no longer "The Valley Athletic Club". We are now the "Olympia Orthopaedic Assoicates" bike team. Our new kits (uniforms) are red instead of green and look really cool! Eric's actually been able to paddle quite a bit with this mild January we've had. He's become quite a waterman.
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Some of Brandee's mountain bike buddies after a fun and muddy ride in the Capital Forest.

Here is a video link to the first road training ride that our team did in the new red kits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdnf0juxgz0

We paddle boarded up on Lake Union in Seattle and met some folks who run the Northwest Paddle Surfers group. Eric was officially welcomed into the group and has the new hoody to prove it. Hopefully he won't offend any kayakers.

Eric, Carmen and I went down to see the 17 ft high tide early in January. The water came very close to flooding over the boardwalk in downtown Olympia. Apparently due to El Nino and some atmospheric stuff, there have been several tides this month that have been higher than predicted. Olympia has some of the most dramatic tidal swings in any part of the Puget Sound.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

3rd Annual Christmas Oyster Celebration

On Christmas Day we celebrated our Oyster tradition with a few of our close friends, many of whom don't have family in town. It wasn't snowy like last year, but cold, clear, and sunny. We had many varieties of oysters served several different ways. It was, as in the past few years, a lot of fun!