Christmas in Provo

We had a pretty eventful Christmas here in Provo. On Christmas Eve Britt and I along with Dale, Judy, Caitlyn and Emily went to see the new National Treasure movie. I've never seen the first one so I wasn't even really sure what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was a pretty fun movie, although it was a little longer than it needed to be. It really started dragging at about the 2 hour mark. I would recommend seeing it, it's a solid 3 stars (out of 5). The Jordan Commons theaters are really nice too. They do assigned seating there, and it is so nice not to have to get there 45 minutes early to find seats. That and combined with the digital sound and projection make it one of the best theaters around in my opinion.

After the movie we went to Joe's Crab Shack, where Jeff and Amber met us. We don't get to go there very often because they closed the one in Provo last year so we were really excited for the crab daddy feast! We had their new Garlic Steamed Mussels, they we're so good and they probably had more garlic than any one dish should legally have. I think I can still smell a hint of garlic on my breath.

Then it was time for the crab! Britt and I shared the Crab Daddy Feast which comes with a half pound of each snow, dungeness, and king crab. Dungeness was by far the best. I think next time we go we'll just get all dungeness. It's just so much sweeter than the others.


After dinner we went back to the Ainge's home and got our bedding situated for the night while we waited for Brycen to get off work and join us. He just got a job at a really good pizza joint in Salt Lake called "The Pie." When he got there we read Luke Chapter 2 together and Caitlyn read us a story called "Santa and the Christchild" (I think?). After that we opened gifts from siblings and the pajamas Judy got for us all.

We were all ready for bed after that so we all hit the hay. Christmas morning went pretty normally other than Dia exuberance at being surrounded by so many new things to chew on. If you want to see more Christmas photos, check the Christmas 07 album on my facebook profile. If you don't have facebook, send me an email and I'll send you a link to the album that you can see.

It's crazy to think that we really have no idea where we'll be when next Christmas rolls around. We'd really like to make it to Vegas and we're hoping well be in a position to do so, it's just fun to wonder where life is going to take us next.