Cue: An early Hanukah, a race to school. Big red minivan (the Big Red Sleigh), climb in, and take off.
Cue: Bart station forty five minutes later. Absurdly cold. Seven turn into fifteen crazy teenagers and we board a car. Everyone else leaves.
Cue: Arrival, volcanic excitement. Make it the Auditorium, line isn't too long yet, starving, ...