The Wizards of Menlo Park

Menlo Park, wooooo! Don't you feel just as excited when you think about Menlo Park? You can't help but just shout it out! Well, before you get too excited, we actually live in Atherton. I know, it's much less exciting. Atherton is a little town just next to Menlo Park. The houses in Atherton are much more expensive than Menlo Park, so guaranteed we will never live in Atherton again. Paul's office, however, is in Menlo Park. No, not Menlo Park, New Jersey (he's not quite Thomas Edison yet). Paul is the Wizard of Menlo Park, California. It's wayyyy different.We live in a beautiful neighborhood where we actually feel safe walking any time of day (which is in striking contrast to Long Beach, where we never felt safe walking...which is why Paul bought me pepper spray for Christmas...the only time we ever used it, it actually ended up burning Paul's hand and both of our lungs, but that's a different story). I'll put in a picture of our little guest house (which I took more for insurance purposes, but you might find it interesting).


We've had a few adventures so far. For most of these adventures we didn't bring our camera. So here's a short list of pictureless adventures:

• Playing on the firm's softball league (Paul got a great scrape on his leg, and I split my fingernail in half...we lost 21-4)
• Speed Go-Carts (I had to add in "speed," because we went really really really fast...also, I ended up getting 3d place out of 13, and Paul got 4th...I cut him off on the very last lap...also another story)

And now for the good stuff:

San Francisco

Muir Woods
We went on a great hike in Muir Woods (thank you, Ryan). Muir Woods is famous for some Ewok scenes in Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi. I have to say, I could easily imagine Muir Woods as being the forest moon of Endor. We even thought we might get attacked by some Ewoks (which looked strangely like squirrels), but Paul assured me that his Jedi skills would sail us through. We're still alive, so I guess he was right.

Now there are some good-looking people...behind us.

The biggest tree in the forest. It fell about four years ago.

Paul is descending into the crypts. All of these trees looked like they should have dwarfs living in them (we've read too many children's fantasy books). I also thought this would be a good forest for the Gummy Bears. They'd have plenty of space to bounce here, and there, and everywhere.


View from the top.

If you listen carefully, you'll notice that Paul inadvertently (so he claims) calls my legs "enormous." His punishment is that I post it to the blog.

As always, we'll have more pictures in our Weitzel Web Albums. However, since we post the best ones here, and even these aren't very good, you probably don't want to check out the others.