Anniversary in San Francisco!

San Francisco has been on our "travel radar" for a while...

SO when a FIVE year anniversary, a BYU bowl game, and cheap flights all lined up perfectly- well we couldn't say "NO"!

So off to San Francisco we went!

I'll be honest...

sometimes I wish Jon and I were fairweather fans for BYU football.

It's painful to watch sometimes.

Like their past bowl game.

Although they lost-

we had great seats, it was a fun atmosphere, AND we got to hang out with great friends!

AND I'll let the video tell the rest of our San Francisco adventures!
(password- sanfran)
San Francisco from amelia brame on Vimeo.

A Stone Christmas!

Christmas is wonderful.

Enough said.

I can't imagine anything greater than eating pounds of sweets, and spending time with family.

It's da best.

We jetted out Saturday morning over to St. George!

After a quick lil' flight-

 We separated- boys and girls...

Girls went shopping and got pedicures.

 Boys ate steak, went shooting, and played Risk.

Sunday was Christmas for us while we were all together!

We had an amazing Christmas dinner, made cake pops, and played lots of games.

We were even able to catch up with some old friends!

We spent quality time with each other...

all on our own electronic gadgets ;)

Ok, ok... we really do know how to talk to each other.

Monday and Tuesday everyone took off...

but we had some extra time to hang out in St. George!

We Cafe Rio'd it up...

Went to the temple...

And sang songs on "real" Christmas Eve at the tabernacle!

I always get kind of depressed once Christmas passes...

but cheers that it comes around each year!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Last Day of Turkey Vacation...

Although we had our last day in Scotland- our trip still wasn't QUITE over.

He flew out of Edinburgh Saturday morning, and spent the last half day in Dublin.

We had such a clear view as we flew in!

First things first...

some food.

We grabbed some grub at a little grocery store and picnicked in the park- St. Stephen's Green.

We just explored downtown Dublin... with bouts of going inside to thaw.

We walked around this fun mall for quite some time.

We found the theatre that Riverdance performs in!

Sadly- they weren't doing a show that night...

Boo.

Downtown Dublin.

Another walk past the Dublin Castle...

And Christ's Church...

We had a hostel for this night... our first hostel of the trip.

It was pretty much the bare minumum.

But hey- it had clean sheets.

We cleaned up and got ready for our Irish dinner and dance show!

We had pretty awesome seats...

(that's the stage behind Jon)

and had some pretty awesome food!

Irish stew...

Prime rib...

 And cute lil' desserts.

 After dinner, the music started!

And then the dancers came out!

So fun.

Makes us miss those folk dancing days.

Sadly, we were up at 3am and out of Ireland by 6am the next morning!

Goodbye beautiful British Isles, we had the best of times.