What does my birthday + long president's day weekend + no missionaries for me at the MTC equal? A road trip out to San Francisco of course! Wahoo... Sarah and Christian were kind enough to let us stay with them over the weekend and it was way fun.
The first day of our trip was spent driving until we got to Reno, NV were we spent the night. When we walked into the hotel we were staying at we were put off a little at first by the purple rainbow carpeting in the lobby area, but fortunately it didn't match what was in our room. Our room was way nice and it was nice to just get to relax.
The next day we got onto the road again, fortunately for us it wasn't snowing and we made it through Donner Pass just fine, though the snow banks on the side of the road were absolutely huge! We made it to Christian and Sarah's house in the afternoon.
It was way exciting to see Anna, Kate, and Blaine! The girls were running around for about the first hour or so we were there showing us EVERYTHING and we loved it...
After just a little break at Christian and Sarah's house, we all rode the train into town to meet up with Christian after work. Here's Jess and my niece Anna riding the BART (I definitely think Jess is the favorite of us two).
We picked up Christian from work and made our way through the city until we got to Chinatown. I thought it was so cool. We went to a chinese restaurant there to celebrate Chinese New Year (it was a couple days early, but this year Chinese New Year fell on both Valentine's Day and a Sunday). I thought the food was excellent and I felt quite at home in the restaurant. I even did my best Chinese grin while I was there.
Saturday was just as exciting as Friday. We drove into SF on Saturday to see a few of the sights. We went to the Golden Gate Bridge, Pier 39, and Lombard Street (which was CRAZY steep, I totally thought we were going to roll backwards in our car every time we had to stop). Pier 39 was a lot of fun I ate Clam Chowder and I actually liked it. That night we babysat so Christian and Sarah could have a night out.
Sunday was Valentine's Day and we celebrated with some delicious french toast that Christian made from his home-made sourdough bread. It was amazing. We went to church and I got to hang out with Blaine throughout the meetings. He was super good the whole time and went to me without hesitating, at least with him I was still the favorite.
One of our favorite things about Christian and Sarah's house was the lemon tree in the backyard. It was soo cool! We even had fresh lemonade for dinner on Sunday.
It was so much fun to get to go out to SF to hangout a bit with Christian and his family and we were really sad to leave. Anna and Kate were so funny and we loved hanging out with them. Christian and Sarah were the best hosts and I would highly recommend going out to visit them if any of you get the chance :).. Thanks Christian and Sarah!
2 comments:
What an awesome trip! I know they loved having you come down and I'm glad you can admit that Jess is the girls favorite. It is just the truth. ;) Keep the posts coming!
We are so glad you guys came to visit and you know you are welcome ANYTIME :) We loved it! Thanks again for babysitting and putting up with all the love and ATTENTION from the girls. They sure love you guys. I still can't believe how much Blaine likes you, Matt. You should feel very special :)
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