Emma & Ross vs San Francisco

For Emma's Christmas present I told her I'd take her to San Francisco for a crab dinner. When the day came, we decided to just take the whole day and make it an adventure- BOY OH BOY did we! We stopped off at the Golden Gate bridge despite the bright sun and strong wind for a photo shoot. Emma hadn't ever been up top to look down across the bridge, bay and city.

Our first stop in the city? One of Emma's favorite places; Morton's Steakhouse for cocktails and crab cake sliders. The crab cakes were just enough to wet our appetite for the Cheesecake factory across the street. Before dinner? Sure, it's totally normal to have your desert before a crab dinner. HAHA! I had the raspberry martini with a blueberry cheesecake. Mmmm! Emma had the strawberry cheesecake and raspberry martini too.


Then we walked over to Ghirardelli Square and sampled the chocolates and I bought a 40 count bag of the chocolate caramel squares. Oh Yeah! After that glutenous afternoon, it was finally time for our crab dinner... except I was too full to eat anything but a salad! HAHA! We did have crab fondue as an appetizer, which I ate with my salad but no dinner for me. Emma DID have her crab dinner, and it looked delicious. Then we headed back home after our crazy food rampage of San Francisco. Merry Christmas Emma!

East West Cafe

Amanda McGowan told me about this vegan restaurant in Santa Rosa that I finally tried and WOW it's my new FAVORITE! I had the avocado hummus wrap and salad with citrus dressing. Amazing- and relatively health, too! I'll definitely be back, I'm looking forward to trying the other dishes they serve here.

Flying Home...Nope!

My flight back home on the 2nd was at 6 something in the morning. Why not more specific? Because I missed it. When I went to re-book my ticket for later in the day, I decided, "what the heck!? I'll just stay the rest of the day". I called Chuck and after some convincing (that I wasn't teasing him) I got him to come back to the airport where he'd just dropped me off and pick me up.

It was a fun "Extra" day in Boise. I got to spend it with Chuck and Emily. One of the things we did was hit up the Chocolat Bar in downtown Boise. DELISH!

New Year's Dinner

Mom always makes us a special dinner for New Year's Day. This year we decided on King Crab legs. Emily hadn't ever had them before, so she was a brave soul and gave them a shot. Apparently she didn't care for them ((Shock!)) but that wasn't a problem for me or Chuck as we consumed all that was left! Paired with the delicious Ste. Chappelle Soft Huckleberry wine I'd found made it perfect. It was a great day for the start of a New Year, spending time with my Parents, Chuck and Emily. I think I even won a few hands at hearts.

New Year's

Chuck, Emily and me went out to the Balcony for our New Years eve festivities. It was a lot of fun. We celebrated with drinks and friends and even some dancing. When the countdown hit we were on the dance floor and the balloons came down on top of us. It was a lot of fun!

Earlier in the week I went out with Andrej, Aida and Chelsie. Always a good time with my Boise besties; thought I'd throw in that picture here.

BSU vs U of I Basketball

We all know how the BSU vs U of I thing ends... right?! Actually, it was a REALLY close game. It started off crazy with tons of people trying to get last minute tickets. Emily and I couldn't get over how the will call woman was just yelling out last names and people were walking up and getting their tickets- she wasn't checking ID or anything! I'm fairly certain some people walked away with tickets that were not theirs.
Then the game started and all I remember is that in the end BSU only won by one point. I was actually nervous for just a bit in the last half. Apparently a famous baseball player was spotted at the game, "A-rod?". I don't know. It was nice of Mom to get the tickets for Dad, Chuck, Emily and me to enjoy the game together.

Ice Skating and Shopping

After Christmas you'd think there'd be time to relax and lounge around- not with Emily here! haha :) Just kidding, we had time to relax, but we also kept very busy and did a lot of fun things in Boise.

We went to Idaho Ice world and went ice skating. Chuck needed some extra pushing.

Then somehow Emily and I snuck away for a bit and got some shopping in at the outlet mall. The hats were a steal- but I think Emily won out hands down for the more stylish hat!