This week's "A Decade ago..." is actually "A Decade and five months ago..." when we were visited by my old old friends James and Amy and their then young children Joe and Lily. And some hummus.
Here you can see my hair is so big it blocks out the sun.
Welcome to an exciting new feature of the mothkettle blog called "A Decade Ago..." In it I will be reminiscing about the olden days and talking about how old I am. Now I've written that down it sounds even more exciting than when it was just in my head.
Shall we begin?
A decade ago this month, on the week of my 30th birthday, we went for a walk through Muir Woods with our friends Oliver and Victoria.
Here we can be seen struggling to keep up with new technology called the "self timer".
And here we can be seen having an invisible light saber battle.
A couple of years later I was back in Muir woods walking the coastal trail with my friend Joe, and we were asked by a middle-aged couple going in the opposite direction if we knew where the bar was. We said no we didn't know where the bar was, and after they were gone we laughed about how silly you would have to be to think that there was a bar in the middle of Muir Woods.
Turns out there is a bar in the middle of Muir Woods. So on the week of my 40th birthday we went to find it with our friends Bryce and Jenny. Here is a video documenting that historic occasion.
