A lot happened in October. First, we got Oskar, our adorable black lab border collie puppy with a major attitude. Then it was my birthday on the 7th, our anniversary on the 8th, and I had surgery on the 10th. It's probably better to just be brief and say it was a crazy month. And just for the sympathy I'll inform you that from October 10th until November 23rd I had not eaten a smidgen of bread or meat. Can you even imagine? It was not fun.
We decided on a whim to drive to California for Thanksgiving. I was in my annual rut at work and when this happens the only remedy is a promotion (which was just not in the cards), some kind of trip (anything) or some retail therapy (which is short lived and the problem usually comes back after a couple months). So a trip it was and 10 hours later we were in beautiful northern California. It was so nice to spend time with Nathan's awesome family. We mostly played with children the whole time and it was perfect. It could be argued that the only reason I wanted to go to California was to hold a certain baby before she learned how to walk. Which I did, and loved every second of it.
We brought Oskar, who by the way is such a good car dog, he slept the entire time. He had such a fun time with Nathan's brother's dog Q and he had a huge fenced back yard to play in the whole time. When we came back to Utah Oskar moped around for a few days as if his life was horrible. He's got such a personality. Anyway it was the break I needed to feel refreshed for work again, that is until Christmas. We already had plans before our Thanksgiving trip to fly out to California for Christmas. We spent 2 days in San Francisco to celebrate our belated anniversary (Oct 8). We had so much fun! We stayed in a central location that was walking distance to everything! We flew in early in the morning on a Saturday and spent a couple of hours trying to find a Starbucks that wasn't closed... it was ridiculous! Everything in that part of town was closed on weekends. We saw probably 15 Starbucks until we found one that was open. Later that night we walked to Union Square and ate at the delicious John's Grill for dinner. The whole night was perfectly romantic. The next day we walked to Ghirardelli Square/Fisherman's Wharf. We spent a good amount of time burning through $20 worth of quarters at the Vintage Arcade then met up with Nathan's parents who took us out to a great restaurant in Union Square. We then got to spend a week with Nathan's whole family! I was finally able to meet all of Nathan's sister, Aubrey's children. We pretty much played the card game Bang for 4+ hours every night and it was a blast!
It was back to the grind beginning January 2nd and has been pretty much since.
We were able to take a little trip up to Park City this past weekend. We stayed in a condo Sunday night and went skiing all day Monday at the Canyon's Resort. It was awesome. We were both terrified about hitting the slopes again since neither of us had been in years. I snowboarded and he skied and surprisingly enough we weren't that rusty. It was a beautiful clear day and practically no-one was there (or they were just dispersed through-out the 7 mountain resort). The only downside is the way my body feels today. I can barely lift my arms and I've got some whiplash from some pretty hard falls. Regardless, it was so fun and we hope to go again before the season is up.
I'll try to be better about this blogging thing...
