Beautiful day

I know it's starting to get cold in many parts of the US, but it's a gorgeous time of year to live in San Francisco. On our side of San Francisco, it's cold and foggy all summer long. I've had to adjust my thinking--that's not our summer, it's our winter. Summer is this time of year! The fall is almost always beautiful, as well as spring. But in the fall we don't get rain, and the weather is usually lovely. It's beach weather! Unfortunately, having just gotten over fifth disease, we haven't been able to do much outside. But on Tuesday, I bit the bullet and finally bought a bike rack for our car (to haul bikes around) and the kids and I took the bikes to Golden Gate park and rode around. It was wonderful! It's hard to ride from our house, since our neighborhood is so hilly. Plus when we're riding on narrow streets with lots of cars whizzing by, it makes me very nervous, especially for the kids. But in Golden Gate park there are lots of bike paths that don't have cars. We're hoping to make this a semi-regular thing. We want to go to Crissy Field next and ride on the marina, over to the Maritime museum.

In other news, we are the new owners of a card game of The Great Dalmuti. I first played it at a homeschool gathering, and it's lots of fun. But you have to understand before you play it that this game is not fair. It's just like life! It's set up like a medieval caste system (but is probably just as applicable to our modern capitalist system...) and it's based on the premise that the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. It is loads of fun! I think we're going to host a gathering at some point and invite anyone over who'd like to play.