We celebrated my wife's birthday in fun style, in her favorite place on earth; Disneyland! Our friends Debbie and Diana even joined us!
The trip culminated in a wonderful dinner at Napa Rose, a very highly rated restaurant. I had pheasant and Margaret had awesome jumbo prawns and pasta. We opened two bottles of Mer Soleil chardonnay, usually one of our favorites, before we gave up (both were sub-par) and got a bottle of Shafer Red Shoulder. Diana brought a surprisingly good bottle of 1994 Williams Selyem Pinot Noir, Rocchioli vineyard. Surprising because even good red burgundies rarely age well that long, and California pinots especially so. We had a glass of 1999 Chateau d'Yquem sauterne with our desserts. 1999 isn't one of their best years, I think, but I was still blown away!
I'll post the cute photos in a few days.
I love Disneyland, and I love eating... I gained 9 pounds in four days! Maybe I have a problem, but if I enjoy it then it can't be a problem, right? ;-) Most of that is water retention (from excessively salty food, the airplane flight, etc.), and it will be mostly gone in a few days, but a bit under a pound of it is solid matter and will require some workouts and diet discipline to keep off! [I lost 5.5 pounds after the first day home!]
To get a head start on burning off my vacation fat, Steve Rosen and I did our first hill intervals on Page Mill Road today. It was beastly! It took me about 56:30 (or maybe 57:30 I got confused) to get from my office, to Old Page Mill Rd, to Skyline Blvd. Then another half hour to descend back to my office. Steve said my time-trial E.T. was about 46 minutes, with the slower down time included, but would likely have been around 42 minutes if I had done the whole climb all-out with no breaks, as defined by the competitive cyclists around here with whom this climb is a popular test. That's for comparison with other guys who keep track of these things. If we keep these on our agenda we will both be super fast by spring!
The trip culminated in a wonderful dinner at Napa Rose, a very highly rated restaurant. I had pheasant and Margaret had awesome jumbo prawns and pasta. We opened two bottles of Mer Soleil chardonnay, usually one of our favorites, before we gave up (both were sub-par) and got a bottle of Shafer Red Shoulder. Diana brought a surprisingly good bottle of 1994 Williams Selyem Pinot Noir, Rocchioli vineyard. Surprising because even good red burgundies rarely age well that long, and California pinots especially so. We had a glass of 1999 Chateau d'Yquem sauterne with our desserts. 1999 isn't one of their best years, I think, but I was still blown away!
I'll post the cute photos in a few days.
I love Disneyland, and I love eating... I gained 9 pounds in four days! Maybe I have a problem, but if I enjoy it then it can't be a problem, right? ;-) Most of that is water retention (from excessively salty food, the airplane flight, etc.), and it will be mostly gone in a few days, but a bit under a pound of it is solid matter and will require some workouts and diet discipline to keep off! [I lost 5.5 pounds after the first day home!]
To get a head start on burning off my vacation fat, Steve Rosen and I did our first hill intervals on Page Mill Road today. It was beastly! It took me about 56:30 (or maybe 57:30 I got confused) to get from my office, to Old Page Mill Rd, to Skyline Blvd. Then another half hour to descend back to my office. Steve said my time-trial E.T. was about 46 minutes, with the slower down time included, but would likely have been around 42 minutes if I had done the whole climb all-out with no breaks, as defined by the competitive cyclists around here with whom this climb is a popular test. That's for comparison with other guys who keep track of these things. If we keep these on our agenda we will both be super fast by spring!
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