I won't be quitting my day job!

This morning I took part in a video shoot for a new Freescale corporate video. It was a lot of fun, and hard work! It was interesting to see the production company working the shoot, and I really enjoyed seeing the whole creative process unfold. The whole video will run for about 2 minutes, so I may get about 10 seconds of fame :) It was a good way to spend a Thursday morning! Now I need to get back to work...

Bike riding in Monteray... 03 July 2006

Today we caught the bus to Monterey, hired bikes and cycled along the scenic 17-mile drive to Pebble Beach. It was cold and quite breezy! We had a lot of fun though, even if the bikes were a lot harder to ride than our road bikes. We definitely got a workout! It was really cool to ride by the ocean. We stopped for lunch at a great little restaurant called "Fishwifes" and had yummy fish sandwiches, then got back on the bikes and rode back to Monterey. That evening we went to the restaurant "Bouchee" in Carmel and had an utterly delicious 3-course meal. We had a great bottle of Shiraz from Kangaroo Island (near my hometown of Adelaide) and the food was just unbelievably good.

Blog... hic! (02 July 2006)

So we spent the afternoon wine tasting in Carmel Valley and well that was interesting! We decided to take the bus because we didn't have a rental car and surprisingly enough there was a grapevine express that took us to some of the cellar doors.

Now I have to say that first of all I find Californian wine overpriced and not that tasty! Second, every winery charges you $5 per person for a wine tasting and then they proceed to give you a whole bunch of elitist attitude... Not cool!

We've given California a couple of chances now and every time we're disappointed. It seems that the only thing people care about here is money and social standing and the scenery is quite blah really. Give me the wineries of Adelaide or the friendliness of Texans any day!

... hic

Beach running in Carmel... 02 July 2006

So Gordon and I went for a run along the beach this morning. We had such a good time racing each other and trying not to get soaked by the waves! We were racing each other at one point and a car load of people ended up cheering us on, it was great. Definitely one of our top 5 runs of all time.

Top 5 runs
1. Mont Royal in Montreal
2. Cibolo Creek Ranch in Big Bend
3. Seacliff in Adelaide
4. Carmel in California
5. Big Cow in Austin

Carmel, 01 July 2006

So we're here in Carmel. It's cold! I've forgotten what 65 degrees feels like and I'm so used to hot weather now! So far we've taken it pretty easy and just walked around Carmel, had coffee, shopped a bit, had some good food, watched the soccer, and just enjoyed each other's company. It's been fun!