Fun Times

I realize that many of my blog posts are about my dates with Justin, but can I help that we do fun cute things? Having said that, today we did fun stuff.

First we visited the Poe Museum. Turns out Edgar wasn't always as crazy and disheveled as is popularly believed. And he seemed to be engaged a lot.

Next we went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. There were lots of pictures of horses. For real. Even though this was sort of weird, I did go ahead and buy a postcard of a painting of a horse race.

Then we went to Ipanema, the vegetarian restaurant. Actually, we got there a little before they opened so we went on a walk first. Justin was very nice and let us walk down my favorite street (West Ave) even though he really wanted to be inside with air conditioning, and he kept being nice when our walk made me super hot and tired and thirsty and silent. Anyway, we ate, and it was really good.

Finally we headed to a cafe (Cafe Nostra I think?) in the fan. It only has one table, which is huge and covered in board games. We played checkers, backgammon, and then rummy.

Some pictures from my trip to Washington state

Here are the cute bride and groom, along with Melissa, Amy and me.

Justin and I are pretty cute, too.


Here we are hiking around Point Defiance, and sitting on the Troll under the Fremont Bridge.




This is what the Space Needle looks like when I'm trying to climb out the back window from the front passenger seat, and this is what Mt. Ranier looks like from an airplane.

I would post more, but I don't think they fit. Shoot.

Back from the Pacific Northwest

Justin and I got back today from our trip to Tacoma and Seattle. If we're lucky some pictures will follow, but for now here are some highlights of the trip:

Katie and Andrew got married! They were very cute. The wedding was laid back and beautiful, and instead of cutting cake they ate banana pudding!

Before the wedding we girls spent a few hours at the women's naked spa. I was pretty skeptical at first, but it was great.

I got to hang out with my friends Amy, Katie, and Melissa. I miss them.

At the Tacoma Art Museum Justin made me a stylish bracelet that I wore the rest of the week, and I painted him a cloud rock.

At Point Defiance I actually found (sort of) the "magic trail" and we hiked down to the water, where Justin taught me to skip rocks.

We visited two wineries up in the Olympic Peninsula and ate seafood right by the water with a view of what we think was Canada.

We also visited a tiny brewery in Port Townsend where lots of local old guys who probably work on boats hang out with their half gallon jugs of beer.

On the ferry ride to Seattle as we enjoyed the amazing night time view we also witnessed a guy propose to a girl, and she said yes.

In Fremont (a neighborhood in Seattle) we toured a new small organic and fair-trade chocolate factory that included lots of delicious samples.

We saw a Mariners game.

After the game we went to the Tractor Tavern for a show by Tom Brosseau, which I really liked.

Except for two cloudy days, the weather was amazing with blue skies and no rain.

It was a pretty good time I would say.