Today, while out at Santana Row to get my glasses adjusted, I decided to get a Wahoo’s fish taco for lunch. While walking by the small grassed area in front of Wahoo’s, I noticed a strange flakey white substance in the air. Much to my shock it was snowing!!  If you live in the Bay area you know that today it was a beautiful sunny day which reached about 65 degrees.  You ask then, how could it be snowing???  Well, thanks to modern ‘technology’ (and according to a friend, the scientists at Disney) there were 3 snow making machines ejecting a constant stream of a substance much like soapsuds, but very fine, and from a distance, a dead ringer for snow.  Only in California would a mall spend that much money to produce a substance the colder parts of the nation spend millions trying to avoid and remove!!

After what seemed like a blink in time, my first semester of grad school is over and I have three classes done!  (although, the past couple weeks did seem to take an eternity with 3 papers and a group project due….)  I am still waking up in the morning trying to dispel the nagging presence of “what do I need to turn in today” feeling. I think by next week I should feel officially on break. 

And to answer the question my husband posed in his blog…what does one do when they have finished their first semester of school??…they go to DISNEYLAND!!!!  And we did!!!!!!   It was a very fun trip with many people who are even bigger Disney geeks than we are….in fact, we had a walking encyclopedia of Disney knowledge along – you name it, Andy knew it – we even stumped a few employees with questions to which he already knew the answers!!  (the reason you ask why we were asking employees questions?..... Andy created this amazing trivia/scavenger hunt for us to tackle for the two days we were visiting – what a tour guide!)  The park was magical and dressed to the nines for Christmas – definitely not the place to be if you are a bah-humbugger about Christmas carols, Christmas decorations, Christmas everything!  I am sure we will be back again the share the holiday season with ‘the mouse’.

Now I can turn my attention our upcoming trip to Colorado in only 11 days!  Eeek – too many packages to wrap, ship and pray get there in time!  I can’t also believe it has been a year and a half since I visited ‘home’. It is strange I don’t miss it more than I do, but I do have to say I am very excited about seeing Boulder, and spending some time with old friends and family.  Christmas at the Little’s (my in-laws that is) is always quite an event.  There is more food than we can all possibly eat and more bodies in one house than you think can survive in-tact for a whole week together – but we do, and still like each other after we part ways!