While the girls went south to frolick in SoCal after spending Christmas in San Jose, I headed north to visit my parents in Lake Wildwood for a few days, where we finally finished a gruesome 1000 piece puzzle we started over Thanksgiving; squeezed in a half round of golf; and had a rare Pierce family get-together for dinner, with my mom, brother Charlie and sister Stacey (and other friends and family). I then drove back to San Jose where I got to hang out with my buddy John, his son Ian, his boxer Riley, and my mom & step-father Colin.
On the 29th, John and I went to the Stanford Men's Basketball game versus Arkansas-Pine Bluff, if you want to call it a game. Stanford was up 45-14 at halftime...
On the 30th, my mom, Colin, John, Ian, and I went to Levi Stadium to watch Stanford play Maryland in the Foster Farms Bowl in the middle of high wind and freeze advisories. It also wasn't much of a game (Stanford won 45-21), and apparently there were a few people there John and I knew, which means we made up almost half the attendance for the game...
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| It wouldn't be Stanford football without the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. According to a woman seated in the row in front of us, the LSJUMB is a "scatter band" which requires much more skill to do formations than a traditional marching band. So there, THE Ohio State Marching Band! |
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| Everything in this frame is frozen solid. |
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Everyone defrosted for the night at my place and then we all spent New Year's Eve eating, watching college bowl games, eating, playing Star Wars Monopoly, eating, making a New year's prime rib dinner so we could eat some more. It was a great few days of food & drink, fun, friends, and family. And it was a perfect way to close out 2014.
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| Here's to 2015! |
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