Romy & Jenn

Hanging out in Brown Hall at the Colorado School of Mines. Romy is working on finishing his thesis while I am at the workshop to learn TOUGH2-EGS.

Jenn

Continuing the drive today from Utah into Golden, Colorado. Its so nice to be on a break!

Romy

What a drive today. From Oakland, CA to the Rocky Mountains in Utah, southeast of Salt Lake City. We found an awesome camping spot in the birch trees. Jenn drove the Subaru into a berm of dirt! Haha!

Jenn

We are beginning our drive to Colorado for a workshop I am attending at the Colorado School of Mines this Monday and Tuesday.

Jenn

Carmen taught me how to cook spicy (red thai chilis) grilled pineapple with rice. I am making it for dinner tonight.

Romy

Romy has spent the last two days recovering from surgery and relaxing. He is surfing the internet a lot!! He found an online game called QWOP. Hhehehehe.

Jenn

Today I accepted a postdoc position at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, NV. I will start in January. We will be moving to Reno in a few months!!! Yay!

Romy

Today Romy's appendix was removed with a laser! Here he is after surgery, making a face at me. The surgery took less than 2 hours, and he was out of the hospital by 3pm.

Jenn

We stayed at my boss's house to take care of his dog Bailey tonight.

Romy & Marcel

Today we went to go see the little chickens that Nicole and Marcel got. They will build a chicken coop soon.

Romy & Jenn

On the way home from Yerington, we took a tiny road through the ranches in the gold country (Hwy 120 was jammed).

Romy (& Jenn)

The transmission busted at mile 43 of our second lap during the Yerington 300 race in Nevada. We went to rescue Heston and Toby.

Jenn

I bought my mom a Berkeley sweatshirt before she left back home to Chicago.

Jenn

Jenn's graduation picture with all the PhDs from the Earth & Planetary Science Department at UC Berkeley. From left to right, starting at top: Sanne, Jenn, Jane, Max, Joanne, Brook, ?, and Rob.

Jenn

Celebrating with my mom at Jack London Square. I was offered the Redfield Postdoc at DRI in Reno!!!!! YAY!!!!

Romy

Apparently it was freezing cold at Coit Tower in San Francisco!

Jenn & Romy

Today we took a drive to the Tomales Bay and had fresh oysters at Hog Island in Marshall, CA. They were sooooooo good and the weather was perfect!

Romy

Romy graduated today with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He is somewhere in the crowd down there.

Jenn

We found seats up at the top of the Greek Theater to watch Romy's graduation!

Jenn & Romy

We went to Lagunitas brewery in Petaluma today to celebrate our last working day at Dominican!

Romy & Jenn

One final exam done and one more to go! Almost done at Dominican!

Jenn & Romy

We made fondue for dinner tonight. We ate it all! Potatoes with paprika were good for dipping.

Jenn & Romy

We took a drive down Pack Saddle Rd between Hwy 50 and Hwy 88 to have a long picnic lunch. It was nice and we had a great view.

Romy

Romy is in the shadows. We got the engine running and its being broken in! Yay!

Jenn & Romy

Today we are in Placerville at Heston's place swapping engines in the Dingo.

Jenn

I got my haircut! Finally! I got it cut at Jim's Hair Salon in Hayward near the Buggy House.

Romy

We stopped at the Buggy House in Hayward, to return and buy some parts for the Dingo engine. We will be racing it in a few weeks!

Romy & Jenn

Inspired by Nicole's crazy juice fast, we tried making a "meanie greenie", with kale, celery, green apples, carrots, lemon, cucumber, and ginger. It was ok.

Jenn & Romy

The poor Subaru is in the auto body shop getting fixed, and they gave us a free rental car. It's a Mazda 3 and it blows!!!! We are thinking of returning it and getting a Hyundai instead, that's how bad it is!

Jenn

Today we went to Martinez to buy an industrial sewing machine for soooo cheap! Its working and I am sewing again :)

Jenn

I am starting to replace the clear plastic windows in the yurt with screen/mesh inserts so we can have some ventilation!

Romy

Working on the engine today, trying to get it done before the Yerington race on Memorial Day weekend.

Jenn & Romy

Eating yummy lunch at home today.

Jenn

Last day at Dominican, I AM DONE! Last physics lab of the semester!

Romy

On the bus getting ready for teaching physics!

Jenn & Romy & Nicole & Marcel

Ha ha! This is such a funny picture. Tonight we went out to San Francisco with N&M.

Jenn

Last week teaching at Dominican. . . . forever!!! I can't believe it went by so fast! P.S. - Three years ago today was the first foto of the day! I can't believe it's been three years of taking pictures so far!

Jenn & Nicole & Romy & Marcel

Today we had a BBQ in the backyard, the day after we sold our patio set! We made torched caramelized banana splits with chocolate frozen yogurt for dessert! Romy's torching the bananas!

Jenn

I just cleaned this vanagon seat and now I am taking a break, sitting on it, and drinking my kambucha. I saw two crows fight a red tailed hawk today in our neighbor's redwood tree! California. . .

Romy

We drove over to Bob's place where he is getting rid of a lot of VW parts. We just inherited 4 or 5 bins full of VW parts! Where the heck to put it all. . .

Jenn & Romy

We just bought our graduation gowns from the Cal bookstore! We figured out we can share the PhD hood and tam (a hat), saving us almost $100! We took this picture in front of Sather Gate on campus.

Jenn

This week has been so hectic that we haven't been able to go grocery shopping, forcing us to eat lunch out again (oh no how horrible!). We love this place, called Urban Turban, just north of the Berkeley campus. Mmmmmm.

Romy

We had lunch at Miller Knox park on our way to Dominican. We had Subway and the ducks tried to steal our food! They were so funny!

Jenn

Today I officially accepted the fellowship I'll be getting for my last semester at UC Berkeley. I am a UC Dissertation-Year Fellow!

Romy

Yesterday Romy got his PICC line taken out. There is all 46 cm of it, and it used to go up his arm and into his heart through that red dot in his bicep! The nurse pulled it out so fast. Ewwww it was gross!

Jenn

Today I got notification that I will be receiving a University of California Dissertation Year Fellowship, which will fund me for my last semester while I am writing my PhD thesis!!!!

Romy & Jenn

Today we were supposed to be racing with the Dingos at Prairie City, but Romy had to see a nurse to get his PICC line out. Instead, we went to San Francisco to see the Bay Bridge Lights!

Jenn

Romy and I had a good time building the engine today. After this picture we sealed the case halves and torqued all the bolts! I am master Permatexer.

Marcel, Romy, & Jenn

Romy looks really into it, I look happy, and Marcel looks pissed! I think we all had fun playing pinball tonight! Romy was pinball wizard with a high score for 7.9 MILLION on Dr. Dude!!!! Damn!!!

Romy & Jenn

We had a picnic today. This is me stuffing my face and Romy laughing at me!