Seattle
An evening on Capitol Hill
Last night we met with Marie’s mom and sister (Carrie and Amanda), her great aunt and uncle (Marian and Karl) and their daughter and her son (Sally and Sam). While on Capitol Hill we stumbled upon some folks playing Bicycle Polo on a tennis court at Cal Anderson Park (picture above). It’s pretty crazy to watch … Continue reading
Seatac Botanical Garden
Mom and Amanda have been coming up with a list of places they would like to go and things they would like to do with Nick and me. Their fridge is covered in post-it notes with these ideas. Yesterday, we were able to remove one post-it note – the Seatac Botanical Garden. We’ll have to … Continue reading
Emerald Downs
On Saturday Amanda, Marie and I went to Emerald Downs. Carrie had some free passes from work, but couldn’t go because she had to work (lame right?). It was a ton of fun watching the races, and we even did a bit of gambling and bet on our favorite horses. We had beautiful weather and the … Continue reading
Three weeks later
The picture to the left is Drumheller Fountain. It’s right outside Mary Gates Hall (the building I work in) and on a clear day like today, you can see Mount Rainier in the distance. Unfortunately it doesn’t show up as well in the photo as it does in person. I’ve been working at the University … Continue reading
Mmm… raspberries!
One of the best parts of summer is enjoying fresh produce and one of my favorite things from childhood was eating raspberries off of Grandma and Grandpa’s raspberry bushes. 🙂 The trick when gathering raspberries is that for every two you eat, you put one in the gathering bowl. 😉 So, we went to Grandma … Continue reading
One week anniversary
Yesterday marked our one week anniversary of living in Seattle. Woo! The weather is sunny and 70 degrees right now and we have a beautiful weekend ahead of us. I’m glad we aren’t dealing with the heat that the rest of the country is putting up with. 😉 We haven’t blogged in a few days, so … Continue reading
Pictures of the New Apartment
Here are some pictures of the new apartment! This apartment is only 565 square feet (compared to 740 square feet at our old apartment), so we have had to be creative in finding places for our things. 😛 I think the pictures make the apartment look smaller than it feels, though. Working from left to … Continue reading
First Seattle Show
Nick and I went to our first show since our move to Seattle. My friend, Matt, is the drummer for a band called The Vain Transparent and they performed last night at Studio 7. I missed the name of the first band that performed, but the second band was a group from Arizona called Fight the … Continue reading
Been so busy
Marie and I have been so busy. Between all the excitement at my new job and moving into our apartment we haven’t had much time to spend online. But worry not! We setup our router, we’re online and we’ll be posting some pictures of the new apartment and stories of our happenings soon.
My first day at the University of Washington
Today was my first day working at the University of Washington Information School. It has been a pretty awesome day. Marie drove me down so I wouldn’t have to pay for parking ($15/day without having assign/prepaid parking). My office is in Mary Gates Hall (previously the physics building for those who were wondering what building … Continue reading