that is what marcie called this morning. and i think that is appropriate. but let's start at the beginning. this morning, i got up at 5:20 so i could go with the mutzes to pick up cammie and her friend emily at the airport. i was sooooo excited. so we drove all the way to the san francisco airport, where we waited for an hour for their plane to arrive. they finally landed, and called us, wondering where we were. we wandered around, looking for them. marcie texted cammie and asked, "are you in san francsico?" wondering if maybe they were in oakland. cammie responded and said, "no...are you?" so we hopped in the car and drove to the oakland airport, where we found cammie and emily. oh, but it was hilarious.
2. zachary's pizza
seriously, best deep dish pizza that isn't in chicago. (sidenote: i've never been to chicago, so i'm not really sure...i'm just guessing.) so while we were still in oakland, we decided to stop at zachary's for some lunch. it was delicious, as always, and we stuffed our faces. i think the phrasing i used was, "imma pack it in," or something like that. PS i decided at zachary's that i really like emily. she told me that she liked my sense of humor, and would pay to come to my comedy show. we hit it off very well.
3. lombard street
so emily has never been to the bay area before, so we decided we needed to take her sight seeing. the one thing she really wanted to see in san francisco was lombard street, so we took her to the top and we drove down in the car. it was an adventure, that's for sure. i've been down it once before, but i guess i don't really remember it being so steep! it made me slightly uncomfortable, driving at such an extreme angle. we survived, though, and that's what matters. we took pictures at the bottom, and then we hiked the stairs to the top again so we could take photos up there. then we all fell asleep on the way home. it was a long day.
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| the bay bridge |
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| emily: "the buildings are so tall! i didn't know they were that big!" |
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| the three |
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| emily happy on lombard |
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| the view |
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| it's kinda dark, but you can see the street a little. cammie has the photos of us all at the bottom. |
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| the three at the top |
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| again. couldn't get enough of the view. |
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| golden gate |
4. christmas presents
tonight the morgans and hughes' delivered some christmas presents to some people in the branch. lisa, olivia, and luke put together some hot chocolate mix and homemade marshmallows, and we made a cd of some really great christmas stories to give to our friends. we went to three different houses to drop them off tonight, and we got to visit with some wonderful people in the branch. it was quite fun. then we made the morgans watch the kid history video, and they made us watch this video:
5. decorating the tree!
tonight my family decorated the christmas tree. it was so fun. family time is the best time. we spent a good long while decorating, hanging ornaments, and laughing at our slightly lopsided, very tall unicorn tree. yes. i said unicorn tree. the tree topper is a little skiwompus, and we decided that it reminds us of a very christmasy unicorn. also, we got some really good quotes from my dad, like, "he's perfect in his mediocrity," and "oh, i just went right past perfection!" and "don't make light of my burdens unless you can make my burdens light." my mom and i were crying for a good portion of the evening.
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| daddy in a santa hat, putting the topper on the tree |
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| david looking at a tree topper (did you get the reference to kim jong-il looking at things? go back to sunday's post to get it.) |
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| my tree can pierce the sky! (office, anyone?) |
well, i'm off to the bakery in the morning! i hope everyone is having the best christmas season. it really is the most wonderful time of the year! :)
also, i would like to report a funny thing that has me completely baffled. my facebook app on my iphone has been displaying my little thumbnail photo as a squirrel. really? why?! it just cracks me up every time i see it! it makes no sense.
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| SEE?! it's weird. |
also please watch this video. i almost like it better than the first one i posted. both are awesome, though.
and on that night, good night! :)
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