We had stake conference today, so we're already home from Church before we would have even left home on a normal week. It's nice to have the rest of the day available to us. We'll see what mischief we can come up with later this afternoon. :)
Our successes this week include visiting a fun aquarium and finding a very tempting used bookstore nearby. We spent a couple of hours there Friday (since I had the day off) and had several large piles of books we were interested in. We narrowed it down by making a "to check out from the library" list, and ended up with a more reasonable selection. Unfortunately, the bookstore is en route between campus and our apartment; fortunately, the time of day I normally pick Wayne up instead of him biking home is late enough that they aren't open. But I'm sure there will be exceptions to that! [If it weren't for online reservations for libraries, we would be much naughtier at used book stores. - Wayne]
The Monterey Bay aquarium was a lot of fun yesterday. We went with our friends Chris and Alyssa and had a fabulous time. We got some nice pictures; my favorite part of the aquarium was seeing all the jellies dancing around. They were quite captivating. The otters were fun and playful, but not as stunning as the jellies were. Also, I had no idea how large tuna are. Really. No clue. And to think: they fit in such tiny cans in our cupboards! Tee hee.
Failures this week include a dessert auction and finding food to eat on valentine's day. We had no real plans on Valentine's day. Neither of us particularly care for the holiday. But I got home from work a little later than usual and it was a bit too easy to convince both of us that a holiday was a good enough reason to let someone else cook for us. Silly us. The first place we went to sat us immediately, but we quickly noticed how many people were waiting around with no food and overheard conversations between waitresses about how long the wait for food and checks was [the people next to us had been waiting a LONG time for ordering and the waiters were talking about just trying to get some water to some people]...so we left without ordering and thought to go to Outback. It was 8:30 at night by the time we got there, and we were told there would be over an hour wait for a table [why are there so many people in this world?! :P ]. We were about to leave when we were told "but the wait at the take-out is only twenty minutes." Ahh. There was our solution. We ordered an appetizer and some bread, and went home to enjoy the food. But mental note: our usual efforts to make a nice meal at home on the v-day are probably right on.
The dessert auction is a fundraiser the young women in our ward were doing to raise money for girl's camp. We decided we could help out with that, so we planned our schedules to show up for the auction. We had, oh, probably twenty dollars in cash on us; we thought that would be plenty to get something good. It didn't take long to see the bids were well over thirty, and sometimes over forty for each dessert. Wow. I don't think the young women really needed our help after all. It was fun to watch the bidding though, with kids egging their parents on ("come on Dad! you can beat that!") and whatnot. We didn't manage to come home with a dessert though. Who knew the desserts would be so popular [or at least the competitive auctioning]?
The weather here has been lovely this week - highs into the 70s. We even saw some kids jumping in the pool yesterday. It makes for nice walks to the park. Spring comes early here, I guess!
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