Enjoying the Present

I'm sure everyone by now is sick of my posts that talk about the future and moving back to Sacramento, but this is a post about the present!!! Mike and I have decided that along with changing our lives to relect healthy habits, we are going to make the best of our time here in Humboldt. So what does that look like you ask? What is involved in making the best of our time spent here on the North Coast? Well, so far it has involved 2 days of hiking, discovering waterfalls, and jogging on the beach. We hiked to the top of Trinidad head to watch the boats in the harbor, and jogged on the beach while Mike kept stopping to pick up every whole sand dollar he could find. By the end of our jog Mike was running with his arms full of ocean goodies. I said, "Mike, you are stealing from the Ocean! Don't make me remind you of not taking more than you need!" We are environmentalist you know! Needless to say we ended the jog with him putting 60% of our treasures back! It was also nice to let Eva off the leash and run all over the beach! She saw a seal hanging out and "cloud-bathing" (it would normally be sun-bathing but sun is so rare here) and tried to eat it! Much to her surprise, when she went towards it she got a big grunt from that angry seal (who was hoofing it, or should I say finning it to the ocean) and it looked more like the seal would eat her! Eva ran away scared, and hopefully smarter....don't touch the wildlife! Yesterday we also discovered, via google, some waterfalls not more than 5 minutes from our house. I slipped on the trail on the way down to the waterfalls, but even with a bleeding finger I enjoyed the beauty of these huge fern covered falls. So this is the start of our summer in Humboldt. I have a feeling enjoying our surroundings will make this year go by much faster! Well that and writing a thesis!