down by the bay

this morning we went to the jelly belly factory tour, and then to the golden gate bridge. I like having people come visit us up here because then I get to do tourist-y things that aren’t in my normal routine. there’s a lot of san francisco I’ve never seen. still. sigh. oh well, we got some fun pictures anyway, despite the wind. actually I wanted some mika-is-here-at-the-golden-gate-bridge-looking-cool pictures, but the sun was always in my eyes. do they make tinted contacts? I tend to break or lose every pair of sunglasses I buy.

look at that superior photography...

I talked to jarom this evening; he and ben made it safely to utah. he said the weather was really nice today. fortuitous again! (I think I said something interesting about the word in the post that was lost yesterday.) tomorrow I’m studying for a test, and packing, then heading back to utah myself on saturday. o the joys of traveling.

the happy couple

I had a long post written about today, but it got deleted somehow. oh joy. suffice it to say, the wedding was pleasant all around; here are a few of the pictures.

me, quentin, kimberlee, julia, jarom, alex

the oakland temple

mr and mrs quentin aten

respite

today my sister discovered, unhappily, that respite is pronounced reh-spit. not reh-spite or ree-spite or ree-spit or anything like that. she went on and on about how her ocd doesn’t handle it well when she’s had a word in her head for a long time and then she finds out it’s not really pronounced that way. ocd this, ocd that. sometimes I really do wonder.

at any rate, the new year is off to a decent start. my dress is coming along alright; krista and my mom were extremely helpful. krista even stayed until 12:30 working on it with me. I think it should be done in time. with any luck I’ll get it done tomorrow, hopefully by early evening, and then I’ve got to clean my room. a lot. julia deserves so much better than this. I really hope we get to see a bit of san francisco, but if the weather is bad it seems like probably not. maybe by thursday it will be less rainy. we put sandbags outside our garage this evening, though the rain has stopped now.

it’s late. I should go.