Saturday morning at 6AM: the alarm goes off and I start to get ready for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk that I’ve signed up to participate in - a 5 mile walk in Golden Gate Park. The weather was gorgeous. There were tons of people there. Josh, Matthew and I headed out on BART.

The bus ride out to the park was packed; thank goodness San Francisco is only about 7 miles wide, so it wasn’t too long before we were there. We got checked in and headed out!

There were TONS of people - men, women, children, dogs - oh, the dogs! So many adorable pooches - Matthew pointed to all of them with his stubby little fingers and we marveled how they all differed from Ava - well, I did most of the marveling. Matthew was quite taken with the volunteer cheerleaders - they cheered him on for strolling against breast cancer, and a minute or so later, after we’d passed them, he’d clap wildly. Hee.

Halfway there!

Home stretch now - almost to the finish line! Near the finish line Matthew hopped out of the stroller and the two of us walked together while Baba pushed the stroller behind us.

We did it! We walked the 5 mile course in about 90 minutes, I think - I didn’t check my time. Since it was noncompetitive, I wasn’t obsessively counting it down to the last second!

After the walk, we went to catch a bus… and had an irritating MUNI experience where the bus driver asked us to fold the stroller up and as we were doing it, drove off. Bah! We finally got on a bus and headed out to Oakland to meet Josh’s grandmother for lunch (dim sum) and by the time we got home, it was well after 2. Matthew conked out in the car.

And then woke up 20 minutes after we got back home, wailing. The only thing that settled him was lying on top of me, so we cuddled, and then he fell asleep. Then I fell asleep. Then Josh fell asleep. It was quite possibly the best afternoon nap I’ve ever taken.

We got up at around 4:30 and not too long afterward headed out to do the grocery shopping, and then after that to my new favorite Korean restaurant. My mouth is still tingling from the spiciness of the food. It was a perfect end to a very close to perfect day (there was a dishsoap incident resulting from incompetent bagging skills from the Safeway, but I am putting that out of my mind).