Weekend in the mountains

Mosaic recently had a men's retreat into the mountains close to Arrowhead. Heres a couple pix from the weekend.


Here we are at opening night



One of the events was an engineering challenge. Goal was to build a structure out of scraps that could lift the most amount of weight.


Another pic from the challenge.


Here is the winning design. Weight was lifted from the middle. Simple yet effective.



Hickson on the last day, giving us rides back to our cars.

Other fun activites were tug of war and zip line/climbing wall, but did not get any pics of that. Much love to Craig, and looking forward to the action next year.

In the City

Kirsten's work had their annual event, hosted by the Nor Cal office. I always look for an excuse to get up to the city, and nothing beats a free party.

We did some of the typical site seeing activities Sat morning, those pix are listed in this post.

This first photo is of us crossing over the bridge into town. We drove up from Walnut Creek that morning, after visiting Heyne and Kathrine.

We hit the streets as soon as we arrived, and here is just a snap near union square. The sun was out in full force this weekend, and so were the people!

We rode the trolleys from the square to the wharf. This was the last stop on the line.

I'm relaxing in the sun after a ice cream sundae from Ghiradellis.

Riding the side board of the trolley looking tough and stuff. bad hair.

Sunday morning, but I didn't know where else to put this pic. We were driving around looking for the entrance to Golden Gate park, and went up some small side road. This old building was at the end. It looks like it was some sort of manufacturing plant at one time. The building is seriously straight out of some 80's vampire movie. The graffiti, the broken out windows, the giant brick entrance, all the important basics are there. Oh, also a mobile police command is stationed in the front entrance behind several layers of fencing. I guess the city is trying to reign in this local hot spot.