First night out to a restaurant in 15 months. Jax was awesome!

Last week I flew to New York for our big annual conference. While it was a virtual conference we were using a production studio in New York City and so we needed to be there, It was my first flight since March of last year and it was a little strange. But I managed to get there and back without incident. It was great to get the event behind me as it has occupied so much of my time and energy since the start of the year.

Toasting the end of another successful LendIt event

This weekend was all about rest and recreation. It started when I picked Anna up from school and we went to get Ben and Jerry’s. Then we had a Friday night picnic in the park which was just lovely. Saturday, Jude and I went for a hike in the foothills in Apex Park, it is the closest hike to our house that is rated as hard on AllTrails. It really wasn’t that hard and we did the 8+ miles in around 3 hours.

On the top of the mountain at Apex Park

We arrived back at home and then an hour later we were all riding our bikes downtown for dinner. We went to Jax, known for the oysters, a place we had been several times but not for several years. It was a fantastic dinner, I was commenting to Marcy afterwards that I think it might have been the nicest meal we had ever had out as a family. It was so nice to be out at a restaurant again.

Jude running strong in the Cinco de Mayo 5K

This morning we had the Cinco de Mayo 5K in Wash Park. Jude did really well with a time of 22:22, coming second in his age group and 20th overall (out of 600 runners). I was several minutes behind in 27:12 but it was good to be out racing again.

Taking a break in the hammock with Olive

Marcy spent much of the weekend working in the garden. She got a lot done and the yard is starting to look good.