Went climbing again, and other things of little interest to just about anyone

Beth & I made a second visit to Bladium last weekend, and were equally impressed the second time. The great thing about showing up on a Sunday is that it's completely dead, so despite the fact that the variety of climbing routes isn't that plentiful, at least we can use any we want (or, more appropriately, any that we're capable of climbing).

The other activity of interest was a visit to Sonoma on Saturday. Unlike our other trips up there, this one was to scope out possible wedding venues. I would say our success was mixed -- we put 5 places on a list to hit, and of those 5: 1 apparently doesn't exist (there is a building with that address and phone number, but it's a dance studio, so I can't figure out where the "secret garden" would be -- there's nothing behind it!); 1 was a great choice but probably out of our price range; 1 looked like it would be nice but we arrived around 4pm on a Saturday, just as another wedding was getting underway, so we turned around and left; 1 was a definite no after just driving down the backwoods road and seeing a very strange copper sculpture of a cow in the front (we didn't even get out of the car); and 1 was alright and on the cheaper side, but you basically get what you pay for, and we didn't like the idea of some golfers in hawaiian shirts putting right behind our photos. All in all, I know that there is a direct correlation between what you pay and how nice the place will be, but I can't believe how much of a range in quality there is!

We're probably going to scope out places in Napa next, but not for a couple of weeks, because we're leaving for a nice long trip to Seattle/Vancouver/Victoria a week from today. The possibility of having the wedding in NY has also come up, but we don't know how the logistics of that will work.

In other news... there isn't much else to report. I'll get back to work.