Engaged

Megan and I headed down to San Luis Obispo for a weekend trip.  The gas at home had been turned off through some idiocy on PG&Es part and we were without hot water and heat, so it was good to get away.  We drove down Friday night after she got done with her personal training workout.  On the way down, we used my newly installed DVD receiver in my car and watched Studio 60.   And by watched, I mean I listened and she watched.  Luckily Studio 60 is one of the shows where it is way less slapstick and more witty so I was able to followed it along pretty well without seeing what was happening.

We were staying at the Peach Tree Inn which is about a mile from downtown SLO but is pretty awesome.  It is a family run deal and they have a good continental breakfast.  The rooms are decent sized and have a couch, desk and space for Megan's bike.  What was really awesomeabout them is when I was chatting up the front desk it turns out they had a ton of bike paths in the area mapped out with elevation markers and pictures from the route.  We chose one of the shorter routes at 28 miles and headed over to Art's Cyclery to rent a bike for me.

After getting a bike we left our car at Art's and started on the trip.  When we were heading up one of the hills I told her my seat didn't feel right (thanks Paul) and I wanted to adjust it at the top of the next hill.  She said she thought it looked off also.  We climbed to the top of the next hill and we stopped at a little turnout overlooking the vineyards.  I got down on a knee and fiddled in the bag for bike tools (double thanks Paul) to "adjust my seat".  She was standing right near me looking out over the hills and not paying attention to what I was doing.  While she wasn't watching, I got the ring out and asked her.  Her first response was "Really? Are you serious?", but then she quickly got onboard :-)

We then headed up to our friend Brynne's father's vineyard, Domain Alfred and tasted some wine and called our parents before getting back on our bikes and finishing up the route.  We dropped off my bike and then headed back to our hotel.  After getting cleaned up and taking some pictures, we headed into downtown SLO to get lunch at Firestone and do some shopping and got some FroYo.  After getting a ticket for not putting money in the parking meter (oops) we headed back to the hotel to get ready for dinner.

Dinner was at Artisan in nearby Paso Robles which was awesome.   We ended up getting back to the hotel around 11/11:30 and were both exhausted after the long day.

Sunday we headed up to Hearst Castle.  Hearst had been our first weekend trip in California, so it was good to go back.  This time we took the tour 2 which showed a bunch of the private living areas and the kitchen.  When I first booked the tour I was super excited to see the kitchen but when we actually got there, it was much less impressive than i expected.  Luckily the other ridiculous rooms he had put together made up for it.  I realized that the appeal of Hearst castle is the extravagance of the ceilings and paintings and while the kitchen was huge and super modern for the time, without the expensive addons the room didn't pop like the others do.

After finishing the tour, we grabbed lunch at Main St Grill in Cambria which appeared to be a clone of Firestone from SLO (same menu and everything) and then headed back up to the bay area.  

Woot! Megan is officially recruited to the Schechter team.