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A day on the coast and at the beach

// July 3rd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // General

Christine and I both had today off since tomorrow is Independence Day so we decided it would be fun to go up the coast and go to the beach. We packed up the car in the late morning and headed over Hwy 17 and then up Hwy 1 towards our first destination: Pescadero.

Back in October Christine went to the pumpkin patch with the Werles in Pescadero while I was in Florida for a conference for work. Ever since then she has been raving about this artichoke bread at the Country Bakery there. We decided to have lunch in Pescadero so that I could finally experience this bread.

We got to the bakery and got our bread (fresh out of the oven I might add) and some deli meats and cheese and headed to the picnic area they have behind the bakery for some delicious lunch.
Picnicing in Pescadero

After lunch we drove back down the coast a bit to Bean Hollow State Beach. It was a really nice day — Not too warm, not too cool. It was a bit overcast at times, but overall very nice. We caught a lot of our fun on video including making sand castles, burying feet, playing with a hermit crab and then walking like a crab. We also got to see a family of dolphins jumping out of the water right off the shore.

Fun at the beach from Patrick Hutchinson on Vimeo.

Overall it was a most excellent day.

vintage cowgirl (banana cake w/ cream cheese frosting)

// November 23rd, 2008 // No Comments » // General

I made this cake for our friend’s daughter’s 1st birthday. I basically replicated the party invitations. This was my first butter cream transfer, while I think there’s a bunch of flaws, overall I’m happy with the cake.

$Vivian\'s 1st bday cake$

Elliot Masie’s Learning 2008

// November 2nd, 2008 // No Comments » // General

Last week I attended Elliot Masie’s Learning 2008 in Orlando, FL. I had a great time interacting with 1805 other learning professionals and really learned a lot in the process. Probably the highlight was the Q&A session I sat in on with Kevin Kelley of Wired Magazine fame. He is a true futurist and has done a lot of thinking about how the semantic web will impact learning.

Another great session was given by a couple of Masie Fellows on performance support. I entered not knowing much about PS, especially being that my involvement in our organziation is mostly from the technical infrastructure side. I left the session with a new passion for looking at how training can be delivered differently based on the moment of need.

There was also the great team dinner at Charley’s Steakhouse, one of the top steak houses in the nation. I of course ordered a bone-in ribeye and it was phenominal. The 6 week aging, daily cutting, and 30 hour seasoning created a tender steak that despite being rare, had no blood running out and yet remaind juicy and tender.