Husky Stadium (UW‘s football stadium, which is “annually voted the most scenic football structure in the nation” due to its views of Lake Washington, Mt. Rainier, the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges, and downtown Seattle) just started undergoing a significant makeover. Earlier this month, I snapped a picture of the stadium with only about 25% of the southern half of the stadium still standing (picture below; sorry it’s blurry, but I was in the car when I took it). The southern half of the stadium is now completely gone (which made Mom squeal happily, because she’s a big WSU fan). I took the other picture of the stadium last summer, while walking along the WA Arboretum Trail.

Husky Stadium, August 2011

Husky Stadium, January 2012

In addition to rebuilding the southern half of the stadium, they will be moving the field slightly, creating new premium seating areas, and more. They even have webcams so you can monitor the stadium’s renovation progress. 😛 The stadium is scheduled to be completed by Fall 2013, just in time for the new UW light rail station, which is suppposed to be finished in 2014. Exciting stuff!

It is actually snowing legitimate snow now. 😛 It’s big, white, fluffy stuff – not the wet, drippy snow we had yesterday.

Big, white, fluffy snowflakes!

OMG, shut down everything! There is SNOW on the ground in Seattle! 😮

Look at all of the snow outside!

Seattleites don’t have a lot of experience with snow, so everybody takes it very seriously when there is snow in the forecast. For the last week and half, they have been talking about this weekend’s possible snow showers. They even extended the extended forecasts just to fit in this weekend’s possibility of snow, lol.

The Weather Channel says that it is 40 degrees outside right now, which explains why the very faint layer of snow on the tree outside our window is dripping. 😛

The sunset last night was amazing. Nick took the picture above when he was leaving work, but it doesn’t quite do the sunset justice. Check out KOMO’s photo gallery for more stunning sunset pictures.

This is a funny article someone wrote about Seattle: My Hometown is Better Than Yours

Let’s see… what have Nick and I been up to? We visited Aunt Jeannie and Uncle Gene a little over a week ago. It had been far too long since I had seen them, so it was really nice to spend time with them. 🙂

Most of last week, I was busy studying for Thursday’s on-site interview with Amazon.com. It went fairly well and I should know by the end of the week whether or not I got the job. Even if I don’t get the job, it was still a really good experience.

We helped Mom take down her Christmas tree on Saturday and then we went out to lunch with Dad. Our Christmas tree and decorations are still up for now. They make the apartment feel so cheerful. 😛

Season 2 of Downton Abbey (a British series that takes place in the early 1900’s) premiered on Sunday, which we were excited about. Nick and I don’t have cable and our antenna doesn’t pick up PBS (we’re pretty much limited to ABC, NBC, and CBS). Thankfully, PBS put the show online when it aired, so we were able to watch it right away. 🙂 Season 1 is available online, too, if you’re interested in watching it.