Summer Sandals

The weather has gotten a little colder the last couple days, and I have started thinking of the fall getting closer, and how all my summer clothes are going to be put away until next spring.

Well, apparently my cats aren't ready to let go of the warm summer months yet, as they seem quite attached to my summer attire!

But, my cats will soon remember how much they love my winter boots, and my sandals and capris will be long forgotten...
(he he he - I guess I'm little silly because it's Friday! Boo-Yah!)

Anniversary Weekend Getaway

With temperatures getting over 90 degrees this weekend, Monico and I took an impromptu trip for the weekend to the other side of Puget Sound. Although taking a trip means spending money, I figured that "you only have a 10th wedding anniversary once!"

We left on Saturday morning and drove South through Tacoma and across the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.




We stopped for lunch in Gig Harbor, Washington.


After a lunch at a Mexican restaurant on the waterfront, we were completely taken by the cuteness of the elderly couple (they both had to be over 80 years old) who owned and ran a used book shop next door and couldn't get away without buying something.



After Gig Harbor, we headed to our destination at Port Orchard, Washington, where we had a room reservation at Days Inn just off Hwy 16.

King-size bed AND a hot tub in the room?

It was like our honeymoon all over again!!

After we cooled down from our trip in our air-conditioned room
(one of the key amenities we were looking for in a hotel!),
we took a drive around Port Orchard.

Could you trust your house not to fall in the water?
If so, this one is for sale...




Not a cloud in the sky... look at the sun reflecting on the water! Beautiful.








One of the "sites" to see was The Candy Shoppe, which we missed the first time we drove by...




So many taffy flavors! Crazy.




We bought these cute flower suckers for Brandy, who let us borrow her car for the trip.




We had dinner at the Pancake House -
was 10 times better than any IHOP I've ever been to.




Everything sounded so DELICIOUS! I had such a hard time choosing.




Monico enjoyed the buttermilk pancakes.




After dinner we headed back to the hotel for a swim.




Ah, Sunday morning. Time to go home.
"Goodbye air-conditioning... we will miss you."




We took the ferry home. We had planned to take the ferry from neighboring Bremerton, but we didn't time it better, so we headed East to Southworth/Vashon ferry.
We had some time to kill while waiting so I took some photos.

Monico in the car




Vashon Island
(you can see our ferry docked there before coming to get us).




Our ferry unloading.




A view from the ferry's bow, and the end of our trip.

Starting our blog...

So I decided to get with the times and start my blog for all my friends and family to see what Monico and I are up to here in Seattle, as I have thoroughly enjoyed reading THEIR blogs!

At present, it is 11:09pm, Monico is watching the Olympics and folding laundry in the living room, and I am frantically trying to get this new blog set up before my eyes give out. But, then again, tomorrow IS Saturday, which means I get to sleep in and "catch up" on all my missed sleep from the week... right? Only if I don't have to work one of my 4 jobs. With Monico soon joining the ranks of the unemployed in two weeks when he starts his one-year Masters in Teaching program at Seattle University, I have taken on some additional work to try to make up some of his lost income. Monico put it best when he said "Mexican's aren't taking all the jobs, you are!" Apparently. But more about that in the future.


I am excited to share that yesterday was our 10th wedding anniversary! Yep, ten years since "I do," can you believe it? To celebrate, we went to Buenos Aires Grill in downtown Seattle and enjoyed a mixed grill feast.

There was skirt steak, chicken, ribs, and chorizo sausage... muy delicioso!!


To balance the meaty-meal, we got a side of grilled veggies:

And for dessert, we got sorbet... can you guess what flavors they were? (So clever!!)

After dinner, we headed over to Giggles Comedy Club just north of UW campus, where we paid $5.00 each to attend "Open Mike Night." Although a little painful at times sitting through the awkwardness of some of the newbies, we thoroughly enjoyed most of the comics, and were even lucky enough to have Jeff Dye (of the recent Last Comic Standing) do 15-20 minutes of schtick! FANTASTIC!

All in all, a very fun and unique anniversary.