Labor Day Biking and Grilling

We had wanted to go on a bike ride on Sunday, but it just didn't work out so we postponed and went on Labor Day instead. We were originally going to go up to Stinson Beach to hike on Labor day, but I had been looking forward to this bike ride for a while, so we decided we would do that instead and wait to do Stinson Beach another weekend. I was also worried we would spend most of the day in Labor Day traffic and didn't want to have that ruin our time off. This was another bike route from the Bay Area Bike Rides Deck from Chronicle Books. This ride was from card number 13: Iron Horse Trail. The trail is actually pretty long, but this route took us from the Pleasant Hill Bart, down to the Museum of the San Ramon Valley and back up. The trail itself is pretty nice and it is also flat which I really like. It was a very, very hot day for biking, but it was still fun. We brought stuff to drink, but still ended up stopping at a Safeway to grab a few more drinks.

When we got to the end of the route, we saw there was a little flea market type event going on. There was also a board game store, which Ian checked out. I was actually going to get a rhinestone necklace (or Ian was going to get it for me); we waited forever for the lady to pay attention to us, but she chose, instead, to gab with the lady not buying anything so we ended up leaving since we didn't want to stand around in the hot sun forever waiting for her to look at us.

After we finished our very long ride, we headed home and Ian started up the grill we had gotten the day we went to Six Flags. He grilled us up some burgers and I boiled a few corn on the cob and we ate them with some coleslaw on the side. We even sat outside in our yard and ate. It was nice to get lots of fresh air.

Even after a long weekend with lots of time in the sun, it looks like I managed to not get sunburned. While we were biking, I kept stopping to put on more sun screen just in case. My skin certainly shows it got the sun, but I have yet to feel any burns, so I think I made it!

I mentioned a job interview at SFGlobe in a past post and I actually made it past the interview and get to do the training. For the position, they are bringing people in and having them do 2 weeks of training and then they will decide who to keep and who to let go. Unfortunately, I will still be in Chicago the day they want to start training, so everyone they bring in will have a day head start, but I made sure to let them know during the interview so I wouldn't surprise them with it later. Luckily, they are going to try to get information to me before I come in so I can, hopefully, be a little caught up before showing up on everyone else's second day. I am going to try to prepare before going by doing test posts and titles on my own and keeping an eye on everything going through the site and Facebook page. Guess we'll just have to see how it goes.