Jaime & Nate: August 2009

Sunday, August 30, 2009

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!

This past weekend Oakland celebrated the "Eat Real" festival at Jack London Square. The festival is centered around delicious and sustainable "street food" where you can go talk directly with the farmer or producer and sample their goods for a small price. Friday night they featured local ice cream vendors - so we couldn't pass it up. We had ice cream made from goat milk, organic gelato, and the best part was that some of the flavors were not the most common: basil, salted almond, orange chocolate chip, yogurt, etc.

What a perfect date night!

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Lake Powell 2009

Growing up it was a yearly tradition of the DeFries family to go to Lake Powell during the summer. After a two year hiatus, they made plans once again to go. Nate was so excited to be back on the water after almost two whole years of not being able to wakeboard - getting married and starting a full time job have really hampered his extracurricular activities.

Having never done the house boat thing before, I didn't quite know what to expect. But I loved every minute of it, despite being held back a little due to my growing belly and the bats that kept me up at night. I did learn one thing - it's helpful to have more than one swimming suit.

Since I was restricted with what I could do, I often ended up being the camera girl, which was a lot of fun.