In December my sister and her family were able to come down to Columbia for a short weekend visit to celebrate Christmas (since we wouldn't be seeing each other during the actual holiday). They came down on a Friday evening. Josh's parents were throwing a ward council Christmas party that night so it was a bit crazy when they got here. But we ate and escaped some of the madness in our room and talked a bit. Then Josh convinced us to take the golf cart out for a drive around the neighborhood. We'd gone about two blocks before we regretted it. It was absolutely freezing that night and we were all frozen! But the Christmas lights were beautiful.
On Saturday we started our morning at the downtown ice skating rink. It was a bit overpriced, if you ask me, but we made the best of it. I think Jamie and I had the most fun of anyone. Elliott couldn't skate on her own and they didn't have any of those push things for kids, so she was pretty frustrated. But we skated for an hour or so and then headed to lunch. We ate at Mellow Mushroom downtown. Yum! The service was pretty bad that day, but the pizza was great. After lunch we headed back to the house for some down time (and a nap for Piper) before heading to the zoo that evening. We had passes from Josh's grandpa for all of us so we went and saw some of the animals for an hour or so before they went to bed and they turned on all the Christmas lights. It was chilly, but we had a blast. That night we came back and caught the BYU bowl game and ate taco soup. Yum.
They had to head out on Sunday morning so they could get home and relax before getting back into life on Monday. We had a great weekend with them though, and we were so glad they made the trip down to see us! We can't wait to see them again!
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