Chris's Day of Fun at BYU.

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe- SERIOUSLY.

This is Alton Brown:

This is his amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe:

1. Cream 1 cup shortening with 3/4 cup sugar and 1 cup brown sugar.

2. Add 2 eggs, one at a time. Add 1 1/2 tsp vanilla.

3. Sift together 2 1/4 cups cake flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt.

4. Mix dry ingredients into wet mixture slowly, in 3 installments.

5. Add 2-ish cups of chunks (chocolate, nuts, whatever)

6. Chill. Chill. Chill.

7. Scoop onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 10.5 minutes. Seriously, exactly 10 and a half minutes.

8. Let cool on the pan for a few minutes to firm up before transferring to cooling rack.

These are the cookies I made using this recipe. They are, might I add, my first successful batch since I've lived in Utah. No joke.

Adventures in California

Really just one. We went to the Redwood forest, which I've always wanted to do! It was pretty sweet, and Chris was an especially well-informed tour guide... as he read each bullet point that coordinated with a clearly marked number which labeled each point of interest :)