Tim and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary this past month. For our anniversary we decided to go visit my brother's house, his girlfriend, and the surrounding area. My brother recently bought a house that is conviently close to San Francisco, California. We drove down early Saturday morning and made great time. After we arrived and took a tour of his house, Tim and I set off to see the last Harry Potter movie. You see, Tim and I have a history with the Harry Potter movies. When the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie came out we went and saw it with a group of friends. I had just met Tim earlier that day, and it was while talking to him in line for the movie that I thought "this guy in kinda cool, I want to know more about him," and so four years later we went to go see the last Harry Potter movie. We were not disappointed.
Later that day, we experienced our first IKEA store. I say experienced and not visited because that store has a lot in it. Not only can you buy some pretty cool stuff there, but you can also get ideas in their design studio. Needless to say, I fell in love immediately. I could furnish my whole house with IKEA. Tim doesn't feel the same way, but that's okay.
The next day we went to church down there, and then went to the Oakland Temple. I hadn't been there since I was about twelve and I forgot how beautiful it is. We went to the visitor's center and watched a movie about Joseph Smith. What an incredible man. The day was perfect too. The weather was nice and the view was spectacular. We could see all the way to San Francisco.
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| Looking at the Temple from the road |
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| Some pretty flora at the temple |
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| Looking down on the temple grounds |
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Tim and I at the temple
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On Monday, Tim and I took BART into San Francisco. That is the way to get into San Francisco. It was so nice not to have to drive in the city. Tim and I walked around Union Square and went in to the various shops. The stores in San Francisco are much larger than the ones I'm used to, and as a shopping person this made me happy. After we had shopped for a while we walked down to Chinatown and looked at the various shops. When we had had about enough of walking we had lunch at the Cheesecake Factory on top of the Macys store. We ate outside and had a great view of Union Square. After lunch, we did some more shopping and then headed back to my brother's house. We had to leave the next day to get home to Sunny, and Tim had to work, but it was a great way to celebrate three years together.
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| Tim at the Cheesecake Factory |
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| Me at the Cheesecake Factory |
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| Chinatown, my most favorite place to visit as a child. |
