Happy Father’s Day to all.  It was a fine weekend indeed.  While I’m not technically in the Father category, I tend to go with any excuse I can to celebrate.  We kicked things off on Thursday with a little warmup in Sacramento.  We’ve talked several times about driving to Raley Field to watch the River Cats.  They’re the AAA team affiliated with Oakland, and the closest thing to watching a baseball game we have around here.  We were talking about it again Wednesday night, and when we looked up their schedule we found the Omaha Storm Chasers were in town!  Closest thing to a Royals game we are gonna have for a while, so we put on some team gear and made the 30 minute drive.  Since we were making the drive to the Big City, we decided to try a new dining spot, and after some research came up with River City Brewing.  As far as dinner goes, we were both rather underwhelmed.  It wasn’t terrible, but with so many other new places to try it didn’t have anything to bring us back either.  The game was a great time though, we’ll be back there.  It wasn’t watching the Royals at Kauffman by any stretch of the imagination, but it was a nice stadium and the seats were cheap.  Guess it’s going to have to do, because I have no intention of driving two hours to watch the Giants or A’s.

Since we had an outing Thursday, we sort of laid low on Friday.  We headed over to Folsom and went to a pseudo-wine-tasting at a lawn and garden center I guess.  I didn’t have much interest in the wines, but they were demo’ing a few grills I wanted to see.  Our gas grill didn’t survive the move, so I’ve been lightly shopping those for a while.  Might just stick with the good ol’ charcoal for a while, we’ll see.  They did have a very nice one I was impressed with, but it had an impressive price tag to match.  After that, it was back home to enjoy the nice weather on the patio, and watch the baseball games.  Quiet night.

Saturday we spent the better part of the day back in Folsom, at the second annual Rhythm & Brews festival.  I’d heard horror stories of last year, I guess they weren’t quite ready for the size of the crowd that showed up.  I was hoping that would keep everybody away this year, but that didn’t seem to be the case, it was plenty crowded.  It was a good time, we’ll probably put that one on the list for next year.  Of course we got a little lucky with the weather, it was quite a bit cooler than it has been.  We actually stayed for the whole thing, which surprised me.  After that we stopped for a light dinner at Bistro 33, then called it a day.

Sunday was a quiet one.  We were a little slow getting around, but finally got up and went for a nice bike ride around noon.  It was a fine day for a ride, and we managed to get in nearly 12 miles of mixed on-and-off road.  For dinner I made myself a Father’s Day Feast;  Grilled ribeye and lobster tail.  Man, it came out good.  Unfortunately I managed to about lop off the end of my finger working on the lobster tails, dang it.  Sure was good though, even if I’m typing with a sore finger tip for the next week.