Saturday's child works hard....and plays hard.

This past Saturday was a long one...we got up about 5:30am to help Chris' parents' with their garage sale (btw- I say "tag sale" but apparently no one on the west coast has any idea what that means), trying to sell a lot of the estate left by Chris' late grandparents. Their hobby (and their living when they'd retired) was to hit tag sales and flea markets looking for valuables, and then they'd set up booths and sell them at various trade shows.
So when both passed on in the past few years, the Danisons were left with a ton of stuff. Chris and I also took advantage of this to get rid of a bunch of our old stuff that we needed to clear out to make room for our "married people" stuff and wedding gifts, etc. Everyone did pretty well and though we were exhausted, Chris and I were happy as we made enough to buy ourselves a new coffee table to match our new couch and a couple other new things.
(Check out this cool car that pulled up at one point)Then at night, we met up with Kristen and Jerry for ice-skating in Redondo Beach. That's right- outdoor ice skating in California! They set up an open air rink right at the beach - it was pretty cool. While the ice did get a bit puddly once or twice, we had a great time and I managed not to fall. Jerry is a great skater (he's a hockey guy) and Chris turned out to be pretty good as well! (Who knew?! Not me!) Kristen and I held our own and I did well enough that it encouraged me to try and maybe actually learn for real.
Anyways- here are some photos and videos are coming shortly....