Vacation Day 1: San Francisco

We arrived in San Francisco around 10:30pm. We went straight to our hotel, The El Camino Inn where we proceeded to check in. The lady at the front desk, after looking at our reservation, asked, "Are there only 2 of you?". Yes. Only two. We got our key and proceeded to our room. This is (kind of) what we saw:

Then we went a little further...and found a door:

And what was inside?

Why another room! A kids' room. We had reserved the 'family' room. Whoops.

Recently

This past Monday up in Anacortes I was in the middle of preparing 3 or 4 different meals for the twins, and I..er..had to use the restroom. But I couldn't really abandon the stove. Anyways, Lili walks over to me and asks, "Chew, are you doing the bathroom dance?" I'm laughing now as I type, but in the moment I simply turned to her and said "yes" without cracking a smile. Lili promptly informed me "you shouldn't hold your urine. It's not good for you". Thanks for looking out for me Lil!

Tonight Kurt and I went to O'Dea High School's football game. Why? A friend from Kurt's youth is now assistant coaching (and teaching) there. The team had no cheerleaders which confused me for a moment until I recalled that O'Dea is a boys only Catholic school. Then it made sense. I mentioned this to Kurt who informed me O'Dea had students from the girls' Catholic school, Holy Names (really? that's a school name?), cheer for a while but stopped because they were harassed too much...that kind of made sense too. The entire game was filled with me asking random questions about football, how all boy/girl schools worked, and commenting on how weird it would be to attend high school downtown in a big city. I guess it worked though because O'Dea won 28 to 13. My incessant questions definitely won the game :)

Vote! Plus a bonus picture

Kurt and I bought some Lego's this weekend. We filled a small bucket with random pieces of our choosing and held a competition. Who could build the most awesome vehicle out of the pieces?

So here's mine: It's Chewbacca on a Segway with gun arms and radio. Totally awesome, right?

And here's Kurt's. It has flames (that I helped build!).

Which one is your favorite? FYI: the characters are actually key chains (mine's a little old and falling apart)



Bonus picture: And what's so great about it? I'm standing behind Kurt! Ha! I love it!

Kurty is thirty!

Yesterday was Kurt's birthday! We (well, he) opened presents, ate dinner with his parents, had some delicious delicious made-from-scratch cake, and I topped the day off by giving Kurt a bloody nose with the soccer ball I gave him. I sure made his 30th birthday memorable.

 

1 year ago

I was here:

picture by me!

If your life was a commercial:

Or is it "If your life were a commercial"?

Rumors

My mom called me yesterday. She had just talked to a family friend. This friend congratulated her, to my mom's bewilderment, at becoming a grandma again. My mom had no idea what she was talking about. The friend's response, "well, isn't Charity having a baby?" Mom: "I think I would have heard that". They laughed off the whole matter and the friend could not remember where she heard such a thing. Mom just thought she'd tell me in case I was congratulated myself..."news" tends to spread. No, I am not pregnant and yes, my mom would have heard such news if it had existed.