Below are some of the celebrity well-wishers. Marvel at Alison's amazing literary skill in writing the captions. (Sorry the photo is sideways...we can't figure out how to rotate it on the blog!)
For Brandon's birthday celebration, we watched the election results come in. We were pretty sure who would win...(Brandon's truck displays our prediction with homemade signs which we colored by hand because we don't have a color printer. Now that's dedication!) (Not pictured: Alison's car with a similar sign, two windows of our apartment with signs, Alison's backpack with Obama sticker [not homemade; given out by BYU Democrats on campus])
In other news, Dad (Scott) had a crazy adventure last week. He was sitting at his desk at work when a car suddenly drove through the wall right behind him. The car slightly bumped his chair, but he escaped injury. Thank goodness!
At almost the exact same time this was happening in New Jersey, I (Alison) was taking advantage of the early voting opportunity at the county building in downtown Provo. Embarrassingly, I somehow drove my car into an "authorized vehicles only" section of the parking garage, went to vote, and then realized when I got back that the car was behind a chainlink fence with a locked gate. Apparently you can get into the restricted section but not out of it??? Luckily, within half an hour, an authorized person went in so I was able to slip through the gate behind him and retrieve my car. This was the worst part: when my car was stuck, I went looking for an employee to unlock the gate. I was wearing my "I Voted" sticker, but I felt like an idiot for managing to vote but not to park my car correctly, so I took off the sticker. I stuck it to the book I was carrying with me and wasn't able to get it off later in one piece. So I got to wear my "I Voted" sticker for a total of about 10 minutes. Bummer; I had been excited to wear it around town all day!
1 comment:
Those decorations are lovely. Glad he had a great birthday! Ah....there is so much pride with an I voted sticker. Even Lindsay was proud of hers! I didn't hear about your dad's close call - WOW! I have been known to be not too bright in the parking department too. When I was about 17 or 18, I went downtown Portland with my best friend Adrienne. We went out to dinner, etc. and when we went back to the garage we parked in, it was locked, gated, closed. No access! This was before cell phones and the internet. I had to find a place to call my mom and she had to use the phone book to figure out who to call to open it for us.
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