Luna de Miel-Alameda

Hello all.
We have begun our honeymoon that you helped make possible with thoughtful, generous donations…
Amy tied things up with the greenhouse and garden at school and Greg graduated from his Masters program, we said tearful goodbyes to the dogs, friends, and fruit trees in Portland, and drove down to our first stop, Alameda, CA on Friday.
Jeanine and Adam are gracious hosts allowing us to stay in their beautiful plant-filled boathouse. Yesterday we woke to chickens cawing and Amy thought for a minute she was back in Bolivia. We walked out to the beautiful estuary and enjoyed some much needed sun and warmth. Jeanine was already in the hot tub and I just had to join in…Adam and Greg made an incredible breakfast with fresh poached eggs, bagels, homemade jams of strawberry (Amy) and tart cherry (Jeanine and Adam).
Jeanine took Greg and I to the Farmers Market in Hayward. We left Oregon before raspberry season had even started and were going to miss most of cherry season so we were lucky to get even more than that at the market. I love being in a place where you can get cherries, peaches, nectarines, pluots, strawberries, blueberries, and more fruit in the same season. Not possible in Oregon. And it was a really ethnic market so there were lots of interesting greens for sale and cool melons/cucumbers that we had never seen, mostly for Asian style cooking.
On our way home, we saw a sign in the window of a house that read, Hay Tamales. Jeanine stopped, kicked Greg out of the car, and he purchased some just made Nicaraguan style Tamales out of the kitchen. Very cool! Gotta love the East Bay…
Today is Father’s Day and we want to say how thankful we are for having amazing, supportive fathers in our lives. We would both not be who we are today without their love.
Today…hot tub, fresh homemade breakfast, bat ray swimming by, now we are getting ready to go boating, and that is only at 11am…