{"id":298,"date":"2003-12-07T20:45:17","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T04:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/austin-holiday-cheer\/"},"modified":"2003-12-07T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T04:45:17","slug":"austin-holiday-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/austin-holiday-cheer\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Holiday Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boy and I got up early yesterday morning and took The Wife’s car in to NTB to take advantage of the road hazard insurance that we purchased. We were out of there in 30 minutes and it didn’t cost us a cent. It turns out that the father of one of the kids in The Boy’s class is the manager of that particular location. We went to Krispy Kreme afterwards. I estimated that 1\/2 dozen would be enough for us to have and bring some back to The Wife and LaLa, but The Boy ate 4 doughnuts and we came back empty handed, much to The Wife’s dismay. She and LaLa ended up making it to the Hilary Clinton book signing<\/a> after all on Friday. She shook Hilary’s hand and they talked briefly about Bill Clinton Namugosa, the baby named after Bill on his visit to Uganda. Unfortunately, they weren’t allowing pictures.<\/p>\n

We attended the Capital Tree Lighting and Holiday Sing-a-long<\/a> last night with the Rihas and the English. We were a little late as my afternoon nap ran long, but we caught a fair number of carols. We tried stopping at Little City<\/a> after the festivities to get some warm beverages, but they clearly weren’t prepared for the volume of customers. We should’ve forsaken supporting local business for efficiency and gone to The Great Corporate Evil<\/a>. With Stepan’s assistance, we managed to get a family photo good enough for this year’s holiday cards. I ordered them this morning, so with any luck (and some help from the U.S. Postal Service), people will get them before Xmas.<\/p>\n

EDIT (12.08.2003):<\/b> Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that there are also new pictures of the week from Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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