So my brother came home for what was supposed to be a surprise visit this last Sunday for my mom's birthday which was Saturday. Sunday we went to my Aunt Tish and soon-to-be Uncle Tim's house in Lafayette for dinner fun with Uncle tommie, amanda, aunt vickie and my cousins. Lots of fun. Went swimming, wrestled with my brother, had a cannonball contest and tried my hand at jumping off the diving board while throwing the basketball towards the hoop. Never quite made it but got to practice my hand at shooting a basket again. Lots of fun. Swallowed a lot of pool water!!! But that's what you get when you're annoying and much bigger brother keeps dunking your head into the pool! Needless to say I'm very tired and feel like I'm flaring still but had a blast and would never not do someting like that just because I'm in pain.
My brother drove up in his new Z4 for which he took me on a very thrilling (or scary in my mom's opinion) drive up Skyline Blvd, both ways on Grizzly Peak Blvd and then back along Skyline to the end where it dumps you onto Joaquin Miller. I think at a couple places we were going over 100mph and maybe 60-80 on some of the corners. Fucking awesome ride! Got to see the beautiful city skyline as well :) Took a few pictures but was mainly focused on sitting on my phone as well as his which in the beginnng went flying out of the center console to my feet so I had to hold onto it. He claims he had never done that beofre but whatever. I know he drives like that whenevr he can. Below is his car :)
Yesterday we went out to the Livermore valley and went wine tasting and also did a picnic. Went to Retzlaff, which I had been to before with Kelly and my parents and brother really enjoyed it as well! We were the only ones there so that is always nice. And of course the port was most excellant and I forgot again to ask where they buy their chocolate that they serve with it. I think I ate more than 10 pieces. Oh well! Then we went to Conncannon which was down the road a ways and that was nice too, though neither had a Zin which bummed me out and I didnt' much like anything at the second one except their petite syrah was okay, better than others I've tasted. It was very windy and about 85 degrees out there. And I became designated driver on the way back as usual.
Jon left yesterday evening, sped off in his Z4 down the street blasting a new refurbished edition of E.L.O. time. It was pretty great. And hopefully we'll see him in Tahoe in August and also defiently Sept 15th weekend in Tahoe when my cousin Kitty is getting married there. Lots of fun!
