Christmas Break is OVER!!! This year was the longest break Jude has had since he started school. It was stinking endless. Yesterday, I had SOOO much to do, and instead I just sat at home ALONE all day, watching all the tv shows I'd DVRed over the last month that are inappropriate for kids, and reveling in my aloneness. Today? Must put away all the damned Christmas decorations!
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We went to San Diego over the weekend to visit Jimmy's cousins and let Jude do research for a school project. They're doing Power Point projects on California Landmarks (yes, Power Point projects - amazing, right?), and Jude chose Balboa Park in SD. Well, I kind of helped him choose Balboa Park, because the cousins live right next to it, and I thought it would be an easy landmark to visit. I highly recommend a visit if anybody is heading to the West Coast. It's this huge, gorgeous park filled with museums and theaters AND the amazing San Diego Zoo. We did the park on Saturday, and then the zoo on Sunday.
My favorite part of the zoo was the Polar Bear Plunge. While we were standing there watching the playful polar bears...
...all the kids suddenly started screaming and pointing "Look, the polar bears are fighting!!". And yes, you guessed it...
...not so much "fighting". All the grown ups started giggling and trying to distract the children from the "fighting". Those randy polar bears!
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Downton Abbey is back!!!! I am very happy! Joy, joy! Maggie Smith and Shirley Maclaine are perfect foils!
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And since we're talking Downton...
This is hysterical. PLEASE watch it...
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And since we're STILL talking Downton...
Can somebody please go to this website and buy me this t-shirt?...
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While at Balboa Park, we saw an exhibit at the Natural History Museum that was all about chocolate - we basically learned more about chocolate than we knew was possible to know. And at the end of the exhibit they had a rather large and fabulous gift shop - naturally. Since we had just seen how the cacao bean was first used by the ancient Maya, who, rather than adding sugar and milk and such, made a sort of spicy chocolate drink, I decided to buy some really ridiculously expensive hot cocoa...
This stuff is OUTRAGEOUS! You only make a half cup at a time, which at first I thought "Geez, that's kind of wimpy", but when I made it I realized why - crazy rich, just the right amount of spicy, just the right amount of sweet. If you see it, BUY IT!
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I have not yet made it to see Les Miserables, but I ADORE this...
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That's all for today. Run along and visit Stacy.
That Les Miz video made me laugh so hard I cried. Honestly, I haven't even seen the movie and have no desire to do so, but that video is just the absolute best. I love it.
Posted by: Elizabeth Aquino | 01/07/2013 at 10:12 PM
That Les Miserables was too funny. I'd be laughing at my mom too. I have no desire to see the movie. I've heard a lot of great things about Downtown Abbey but haven't watched it. Thinking I should see what the hype is all about. Polar bears "fighting"...hilarious!
Posted by: Terra Heck | 01/08/2013 at 12:53 AM
Gotta love when a simple trip to the Zoo goes all Discovery Channel and definitely needs editing.
Posted by: VandyJ | 01/08/2013 at 06:49 AM
I really want to get into Downton but I keep missing it and soon, I'll be just so far behind!
Posted by: Claire | 01/08/2013 at 07:47 AM
Oh my gosh, that is hilarious with the polar bears "fighting."
Posted by: Alaina | 01/08/2013 at 08:56 AM
The orangutans decided to "fight" the last time we visited the zoo. Right up on the kids at the glass. Staring at us all like WATCH THIS, STUPID HUMANS WHO FORCE US INTO GLASS BOXES.
I thought the coffee said "abuse your senses" at first.
Oh, Christmas break. WHY? Why do they need two full weeks off? I don't understand. We just de-Christmased the house last night, finally undoing the tree. A neighbor or wayward person decided to help us before we were ready to take stuff down outside -- stole the pretty red bow from the gate. Bastards.
Posted by: Arnebya | 01/08/2013 at 10:19 AM
I've seen that Breaking Abby before, it's hilarious. I haven't watched any of that show yet but I've been considering it and I do need a new show to watch. Those bears are hilarious, my husband and I are way to immature to witness something like that.
Posted by: Julie Maloney (@Momspective) | 01/08/2013 at 11:39 AM
I'll never forget taking Sprite to the zoo for the first time during mating season in the monkey area. Luckily, she was only eight months old so she thought nothing of her father and me losing our shit over the gang um banana going on.
Posted by: Sprite's Keeper | 01/08/2013 at 01:21 PM
Downton Abbey: it's not your mother's Guiding Light (hey! i just thought of a blog post!). It was amazing! I savored every 120 minutes of the premiere. And my son in 3rd grade claims one of his hobbies is making power points. I used a typewriter in college!
Posted by: kate | 01/08/2013 at 01:40 PM
So happy to have Downton back. Can't wait to do something jolly with my hair.
I need to find that hot chocolate. I love a spicy hot chocolate. Certainly I can switch one of my 4 giant mugs of tea a day to a small cup of hot chocolate.
Posted by: Sarah at 32Flavors | 01/09/2013 at 07:21 AM
Love, love, love Jude at the Zoo. And it is that time of year for randy antics. Two birds were "fighting" in the aviary at the skilled nursing center where we visited Gene's mom this afternoon.
Downton rocks.
Posted by: Janice Adcock | 01/09/2013 at 07:18 PM