If you lived here, you'd be doing this with us.

Dearest Bonnie, 

We planned a big birthday post for you on Wednesday but I thought it would be nicer to give you this instead. For your birthday, I got a black eye. Bon Anniversaire, Bonnie! More to come… 

Dear Bonnie, 

We’ve been terrible! Nous sommes terrible!

You know why? Because it’s now February and we haven’t posted since Halloween. We thought we’d post a Thanksgiving letter but it didn’t happen. Shame on us.

But! Lo and behold! This is our holiday extravaganza post! We had a Christmas party. At Christmas. Duh. You are were and still are the topper to our tree. Candy canes were hung, cider was drunk, cheese was nibbled, and presents were opened. We also all posed for some pictures, and we made sure you had a good time.

What’s Christmas like in France? Did you have snow? Do the French have presents? Did you see Santa?! Tell us Santa comes to France, too!

Well, that was Christmas. There’s sure to be another event on it’s way that we’ll happily enjoy your presence at. We’ll share about it soon, we promise.

Great!

Emily and Kristin

Dear Bonnie, 

We have to come clean. Emily left her camera in Boston so we haven’t been able to post our amazing holiday photos yet.

But! Get this! Emily’s dad took a beginner’s digital photo class with Emily’s camera, so we’re anticipating a little extra Bonnie magic added to whatever photos Mr. T attempted to shoot.

So, in short, sorry. But it’s gonna be worth the wait, we promise.

Alright, well..

Emily and Kristin

Dear Bonnie,

Hi! First of all, we’re sorry we’ve been so slow with posting. C’est la vie, am I right?

Secondly, we have a question for you.

What did the tiger say to the cricket?

(This is the part where you say, “what?!”)

Eat me!

Oh man, wasn’t that funny? Hope you enjoyed your first joke of the week all the way over there in France. Maybe you can even translate it and tell it to your friends! I bet they’d like that.

Well. Hope 2011 is cool across the ocean, too.

More pictures to come..

So.. yup,

Emily and Kristin .

Dear Bonnie, 

We know.. we’ve been slacking. Nous somme tres tres désolés. (That means we’re sorry.)

We’ll start where we left off. Halloween was great! Our friends, who you know and love, decided to dress up as all the characters from Clue. If they don’t have Clue in France, and you forget what it is, it’s a board game with characters named Professor Plum (Eric), Mrs. White (Kristin), Colonel Mustard (Max), Mr. Green (Jonah), Ms. Peacock (Emily), and Ms. Scarlet (Mo). We each carried our weapon of choice and we were each killed by a different weapon. Clever, I know, right?! We were obviously a hit at the party that we went to.

Eric’s roommate, Watson (a girl), and her saucy girlfriends did his hair for him. And let us tell you.. it was something. That’s for sure. 

Mo dropped her wine glass about 54 times and Emily’s feet hurt about 10 minutes after arriving to the gala.  

We ate a lot of food and drank the wine that didn’t spill. Afterwards, we went back to Emily and Mo’s house. Pajamas ensued. 

We promise some November and Thanksgiving updates ASAP!

Thanks for being patient.  

Regardless, 

Kristin and Emily.

Dear Bonnie, 

Sorry for not writing in a few days. We’ve been swept up in a Halloween Frenzy! A Wednesday passed us and of course, you know that means we went to Barragan’s. We recently have been trying to go earlier in the evening but have since decided that that really isn’t the best idea. They don’t let us sit on the patio if we go early - instead, we got stuck in front of the biggest TV that we’ve ever seen in a dark corner.

Things were going fine for the most part when all of a sudden the “DJ” came. We have never heard someone who was so unfit for their title. The volume kept getting louder and softer, the music was mostly just this incessant buzzing, and everything about it was just generally unpleasant. We couldn’t really hear each other talking anymore so we decided to call it a night.

The week before though, Joel came and bought about a million pitchers and we all got exponentially more inebriated than we had planned. Headaches ensued.

On a lighter note, we hesitantly welcomed Corey back to our Wednesday night tradition on the condition that he didn’t sit next to Emily and he promised not to vomit ever again. He did well. 

Anyway, back to Halloween Madness. Do they celebrate Halloween in France? You should introduce it to them. You’ll be known as the American that blew France’s mind. 

Trick or Treat,

Kristin and Emily. 

P.S. The girl ghost has been walking around in the attic recently while Emily is in the store alone. Presumably, that means she says “hi”. 

Dear Bonnie,

Tonight we played Dominoes, or as Kristin calls them, Darts. Mo has won a lot although Kristin thinks she is the reigning champion. Emily and Mo disagree.

Tonight we’ve been telling ghost stories and talking about Ryan Gosling. What else is new, right?!?!

Big news! Today there was a bomb in the Walgreen’s parking lot. Except it wasn’t really a bomb.. it was just a suitcase. But the bomb squad blew it up with a robot just in case it was a bomb. Y’know, because Echo Park is a terrorist hot spot apparently?

On Saturday, Ben Savage came into the store and Trevor whispered to Emily, “Is that Ben Savage?” and Emily said, “That’s not Ben Savage.” But it turns out Emily thought he was talking about someone else and Ben Savage was really there. And then we made Ben Savage touch the slimy ears and he thought they were gross.

Anyway, we’re going to get back to our PBR’s, or as Kristin likes to call them, Margaritas.

So….

Emily and Kristin.

Dear Bonnie, 

On Sunday we went to your favorite restaurant and bar, Tony’s Darts Away in Burbank. Joining us for delicious vegan and meat sausages, locally brewed beers, darts, and pool, were Eric, Trevor, Emily’s roommate, Mo, and the new intern, Jonah. Kristin tried the sausages for the first time and she said she liked them better than Wurstkuche. Emily agreed. We sat in the dark corner but then ended up moving to a better table. Things were a lot more enjoyable after that. We played Scattergories and Kristin got mad at everyone for challenging her answers.

Then the impossible happened when the category was “Animals” and the letter was C.  Jonah and Eric both played CAPYBARA. We thought Eric’s head was going to explode. To refresh your memory, Capybara was the word that caused Eric to get out of the Spelling Bee. 

The game ended with Eric winning anyway despite the Capybara disaster. On the way home, Trevor almost had a heart attack because he thought Kristin was a crazy driver. All in all it was a good night. We certainly missed you though.

Well. We hope France is as cool as Los Angeles is. We also hope that this blog doesn’t make you too sad.

Many more posts to come!

Anyways,
kristin and emily