Memorial Day on Mission Peak

After a Memorial day weekend that included our 22nd wedding anniversery on Friday, and moving Kate home from school on Sunday, we decided to take it easy on Memorial day and hike Mission Peak, just for fun. Barb wanted this to be our “start to a week full of fitness and healthy eating.” YAY!

Kelly was the only one with the intestinal fortitude to assend Mission peak with her mom and pops. Since it was just the three of us, we decided to go for the family record of 1 hour 15 minutes. We started up the Ohlone side at 10:30 on a beautiful Monday morning. Sun shining and birds singing as we made our way up the peak. No time to dilly dally as we kept a pretty good pace up to the seasonal pond, beyond the whomping willow and pee tree, the “4 to 5 minute mark”, the outhouse, the hard part, Diane’s spot, and then to the peak. Kelly had pushed ahead at the end and made it to the the top in 1 hour 1o minutes. Barb and I trudged in (huff’n and a puff’n) at a fast paced 1 hour 11. We enjoyed 20 minutes on the top and then hightailed it back down. On to Starbucks and a reward drink and then back home. Finished the weekend off with BBQ at Vandenbusch’s and all is good in the world. ALL GOOD.