This weekend was Bay to Breakers!  I walk the race every year with two of my coworkers.  It is 12k and is always lots of fun and craziness – you never know just what you might see in San Francisco on race day.

My coworkers came to pick up S and I at about 6:30am.  Look what they brought us:

Holy cherries!  An huuuuuuuuuuge box, filled with cherries straight off of their family’s cherry trees up in Stockton.  Literally – enough cherries to last for months!  I was so excited and started eating them right away.  They are so sweet and delicious.

I love cherries, but don’t buy them too often (particularly this time of year) because they are so pricey.  Just yesterday I went to the grocery store and they were on sale for $4.99 a pound!  And this is literally at least 20 pounds of cherries. 

After I was finally torn away from the cherry box (I almost made us late!) we were off.  My coworker’s husband is kind enough to drop us off and pick us up each years, which makes things really easy.  No worrying about parking or finding our way through the crowds. 

We were at the starting line in plenty of time for the 8am walkers start. 

You never know what you are going to get as far as the weather is concerned.  I have done it four years in a row now, and each year the weather is different.  San Francisco weather = completely unpredictable!  Last year it was HOT and sunny.  This year it was COOOOLD and windy!  I was so glad I took my sweatshirt (I almost didn’t) because I would have frozen without it.

A tradition of Bay to Breakers is to throw tortillas at the starting line while everyone is waiting.  It is crazy… there are tortillas flying everywhere!  Out of nowhere, one will come and clock you on the head.  And when you look up at the sky at any given time, you can just see tortillas flying!  You totally have to keep your eyes open and stay alert to avoid any pre-race tortilla injuries

My handsome walking partner:

Best. Coworkers. Ever.

At 8am, the gun sounded and we were off!

Well… not exactly.  It takes over 10 minutes to actually cross the starting line in Bay to Breakers – that’s how many people there are! 

There were costumes everywhere.  A few I enjoyed (and managed to catch a picture of) included some interesting British soldiers in their skivvies:

And a group of smurfs!!

There was much porta-pottying to be had by all.

Please pay no attention to the large man in the pink tutu.

And we walked and walked.

And walked.

Oh yes, and of course there were many nakey people.  Not nearly as many as last year, due to the much colder weather, but still a lot!  I couldn’t resist taking this picture of my coworkers from behind.  See who else I captured in my shot?  Look closely… 

Just another day in San Francisco

Off to continue eating my body weight in cherries.  I’ll be back tomorrow for a new surprising fact about my already surprising boyfriend.  Don’t even try to guess.  You’ll never figure it out…