Third Time is a Charm

This was a picture that Molly drew for me because this weekend was the last weekend that I had to sit through my lecture and lab from 8:30am to 6pm and it feels so good to be done with. My final is on Wednesday afternoon and I'm also going to finish up my BYU Independent Study classes once and for all this week. With all the free time I'm going to have now Molly's pushing me to go get a part time job at Blockbuster or something so that we can get free movies or at 24 hour fitness so that I can get real buff...or maybe I could go down and work for Zerorez in San Jose or even sell cotton candy at the Warriors games or something. All I know is that if I had to sit through another one of Dr. Mossman's lectures I might have gone crazy and driven the Jeep right into the bay on the way home. I now know way too much about Organic Chemistry for my own good and have paid the price for not concentrating on all the mechanisms, deprotonations, and reactions the first...and second time around...and I didn't just squeek by this time...I got an A!

Field Trip for you

I woke up on Saturday at 7am while Kc was getting ready to go to OChem class and was pretty glad I could go back to sleep. But Kc threw me my cell phone and Anne had texted me to see if I wanted to go with them to Gold country. Why not? So I hopped on the BART and met up with the Packers to start driving. We drove towards Sacramento and stopped off at UCDavis, which besides having a sweet recreation building, rock climbing wall and a compost/worm exhibit was pretty dull? After driving Mike needed a bathroom break pretty bad, so we drove into a construction site and while he was using the portopotty I tried to roll him off and Anne was ready to take an embarrassing picture as he came out. Mike knowing Anne was one step ahead.

After UCDavis we drove to Sacramento to go check out the sights and meet up with John Garlock for breakfast. We ate delicious crepes and omelettes, and then drove around the city to see the capitol building and Arnold's stomping grounds.

After Sacramento, we drove to Placerville and Sutton Creek to check0out "Gold Country" which is where Gold was discovered and started the gold rush. We missed some of the tours or visitor centers because it was another 50 miles north but we did hit antique central which Anne was stoked about.

Are you kidding me?

Kc and I have been having one of those weeks where there is good news and then bad news in a continual cycle. On Tuesday I went in for a job interview at Clean Well, to be their sole Graphic Designer in house, hopefully I get a job offer. (cleanwelltoday.com) Wednesday I was about to buy a new laptop battery because my computer shuts down every 5 minutes, but I found out I am eligible for a recall battery. Both good news. Then on Thursday when Kc was driving 50 miles away to take a few tests for Independent study our car started to break down. Today we took it in to the auto shop, and they said it should be no more then $150. So we left feeling like we had dodged a bullet usually every trip to the shop costs $700 or more. But by the end of the day they called us and said they found a few more things wrong and we could pick it up at 5:30. The damage was a lot more than $150 all for a pipe and a cap. I feel like you walk in and you are in their hands- you are going to pay whatever they say- there is no negotiating because you don't speak their mechanical language.

Parents come to town

This last week my parents came to town to visit Anne, Mike Kc, and I. They came up to go to a Stanford football game on Saturday. While I took a phone interview with a job possibility my family went golfing in Berkeley. Then we went back to the Packer house and played bball in the backyard. Later that night we went on the Alameda ferry to San Fran to walk around the Ferry Building, Union Square and more. We were going to go eat at Cheesecake Factory, but instead we found an old classic, TAD's Steakhouse. A place where my dad went as a kid in Chicago. The next day we picked up Kc from class and drove to Palo Alto to go to football game, which was really gun even though Stanford isn't that great. Love it when the parents come!

Santa Cruz

On Halloween Kc and I drove down to Santa Cruz to go check out the boardwalk, surf museum and wharf. We drove down and found out most everything was closed for the winter, but we found a sweet surf spot where old guys and young guys fight over the waves. We also saw tons of sea lions, a seagull that caught a starfish, and a lot of fog that rolled in that night.

Opening Night

Tuesday was awesome. We got two tickets to the Warriors/Jazz game on opening night and got there early to see introductions and all that other show. During the game there was a 5.6 earthquake that scared a lot of people including ourselves. We were sitting in the upper seats and the arena was shaking pretty good and everyone noticed but no one freaked out. Molly and I were cheering pretty loud from the second quarter on when the Jazz pulled away and ruined the Warriors opening night. It was a fun game to go to and definitely wont be the last.

Our new place in Alameda

We moved to Alameda, CA a city west of Oakland and directly across the bay from San Francisco. We owe Anne and Mike for introducing us to Alameda. The cool thing about our town is that it is an island. Our church is just 3 blocks away, and there is a shore where people windsurf and kayak. One weekend we drove down to Half Moon Bay with Anne and Mike to check out the beaches, and pumpkin patches.