We spent Christmas Day in Washington and
woke up to tons of Santa gifts and stockings!
OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!
We had a WHITE CHR
ISTMAS! We tried to make a snowman but the snow got
so cold that it was crunchy so Eric being Eric
had a great idea to just wet down the snow
with a "water bottle" to make it pac together.
HaHa...it ended up not working out so well.
The day after Christmas we left way early in the morning (4am) to fly to California. My poor parents had to drive us in to Seattle at that horrible hour :) So we also thought that flying so early would be smart so we wouldn't have to be stuck in long lines of holiday travel. Yeah, turns out everyone else had our same idea. The lines were so long inside(wrapped around several counters and extended so far we couldn't tell where the line ended) that we ended up waiting outside in the curb side check in for 45 minutes. Good thing we got there early.(3 hours of sleep = picture above)
We had a great time in California. We got to see all of Eric's family and got a little bit of warmer weather as well as more Christmas! All of us went to see the movie Marley & Me which we will recommend seeing if you can handle a few tears. Oh yeah, we also saw Four Christmases when we were in WA. It was funny but certainly not what I expected.
So you are probably wondering about why Eric is next to this Pontiac Solstice. Well, get ready for a story. So Eric had an interview with the company Bovis Lend Lease for an internship this summer. The interview was in downtown L.A. in the morning of the day we were leaving to come back to Utah. We figured to rent a car to drive up to L.A. and then drop it off at the airport as we left. Turns out rental cars were really hard to come by. We finally had a place that had one car left. They told us that is was a two door pontiac. So of course we were thinking just a sm
all compact car that would surely have a back seat. Well we go to pick up the car and they give us the Solstice. Ok this thing is tiny. There is the driver and passenger seat and that is it. No back seat to be found! I mean it was a very nice looking car but we had luggage to take with us. But looking at the car it appeared to have a large trunk so we figured things would be fine. So Later that night we pop the trunk only to find that the majority of the trunck is taken up with what I can only think are speakers. So we had a tiny freak out moment because we had 4 large suitcases/duffel bags to get in that car. So we were able to squeeze smaller bags into the trunk if we took things out of them and shoved them in every spot possible. Then(luckily I am short)we had to put one bag on the floor board where my feet shou
ld go and then I held onto another large duffel bag in my lap. This was such a sight. I had a limited view of anything and we drove the 45 minutes up to L.A. It was actually pretty hilarious and I can only imagine what the valet was thinking when we pulled up to park the car. Ha Ha. But i was able to get out and stretch my legs while exploring the city while Eric was in his interview. But we made it to the airport and had an easy travel home to Utah.*Incase you were wondering Charles survived being at home for 10 days without us! We had people go over every couple days to make sure he was ok and had food but he was sooooo happy when we finally came home!
