Weekly Activites

Hello Everyone,
Welcome to update #3! Since we last talked, a couple of things have happened. Me and Chrissy have decided to have weekly activities to keep us active. These are laid out by days of the week with each having a clever title. We begin with:

Monday Night Monopoly



Since we are both avid Monopoly fans, we decided to pick up the game that brought back childhood memories. This game time will come in conjunction with the epic Monday Night programming of Heroes(!). We will keep you posted on the winning status. So far its:

Ben - 1
Chrissy - 0

It's too Good to be Truesday!



So last St. Patrick's Day we were planning on going to Paddy Coyne's. Since this is the only Irish Restaurant/Pub in the area, they had a line going out the door and a $10 cover. Instead of waiting an hour to pay $10, we decided to go a block away to the Southlake Grill. We have been wanting to go to this place not only because it is 2 blocks away, but also because our apartment has a deal with them that allows us to get 15% off at all times. We then found that on Tuesday's, they have a deal that is $2.99 for ANY drink. This includes top shelf liquor such as Grey Goose and Crown Royal! Therefore on Tuesday's we plan to stop over for a good cheap drink. It is too good to be True(sday).

Walks by the Water Wednesday

Since there is so much water around the Seattle Area, we decided to make Wednesday's the day to take walks by various bodies of water. For the first Wednesday we decided to check out the East side of Lake Union, which happens to be conveniently 3 blocks north of us. There are a lot of nice little restaurants along the water as well as a place to buy $3 Million dollar boats (that happen to come with a boat). Below are some of the pictures from the walk.

Thursday Travel Trip's

Continuing with the theme of exploring new things, we decided to make Thursday's the day the explore more places around Seattle. In the future this will come in conjunction with Walks by the Water Wednesday. Last week while driving around the Magnolia Suburb (north-east Seattle), I happened to discover "Discovery Park". So for the first Thursday trip I decided to take Chrissy there and see what there was to discover. After a 30-minute hike from the parking lot, we discovered the Puget Sound waterway. This is the Western Most point of Seattle and it overlooks Bainbridge Island. We hiked from South Beach to North Beach then back to the parking lot. Over all it was about a 2 hour hike and we saw some beautiful sites.

Discovery Park was a pretty cool place. And yes, that really is a Bald Eagle. He flew like 10 feet over top of our head and said "Welcome to Seattle".

Since we have been out here, we have been meeting more and more people. It seems that a lot of people out here are from the Midwest. In fact, we happened to run into someone that we both knew from La Crosse. Because of this, we have decided to have "Family Dinner" nights. Each week someone will host the dinner at their place and provide the main course. The others will bring side dishes and desserts. We decided to do this on Thursday nights, so therefore Thursday Travel Trip's will now be a part of Walks by the Water Wednesday. First up will be at Andy's place because he is going to be moving in 2 weeks. The list of people so far are as follows:

Ben & Chrissy
Andy
Kristin
Matt
Lauren
Ben G. & his Girlfriend

Saturday night we meet up with some friends, Blake and Kris, from Port Angeles, Wa. They came down with a group of people for a String Band Concert at the Crocodile Lounge. The band "Hot Buttered Rum", and even the jam band before "The Everything Orchestra", were amazing! We meet some pretty cool people and had a great time. Also, it turns out that it only takes 30 minutes to walk downtown from our place. How convenient!

Another update is that our apartment is coming together more and more. This is partly due to my recent purchase. It has been 4 years that I have been looking to get a nice TV so I finally bought one. It was a closeout item so it was $200 off. Plus I had some gift certificates built up so it was a pretty good deal. Behold, the

42" Sony Bravia 1080p LCD HDTV





All I can say is WOW. It looks absolutely amazing. I don't know how I have gone this long without a nice TV. And on a side note, we now have a TV in the bedroom. This allows us to be able to watch both our TV Shows that happen to be on at the same time. How Nice.

Until Next Time....

AMLI 532

(written by Chrissy so you know who the I's are referring to :)
Hi Everyone,

Welcome to AMLI 532 - our new home! We thought we should share some pictures of our new place! We are still trying to get things organized so don't be too critical of us :)

Let's begin with my favorite part - a washer and dryer in our apt! As you can see we have a multitude of things packed around the washer and dryer mainly because this is our only storage space! Ugh!


Here is our lovely bathroom.


And our bedroom closet....obviously we have a few too many clothes for this small closet, but thanks to Craigs List I will soon take care of that :)


The bedroom with Lloyd taking a nap.


Here is the living room where we have our computers side-by-side by the windows. This is where I get to work from everyday.

So yesterday we went to IKEA and got some furniture and decorations that we needed. I had to add this one of our new coffee table for all those of you who had seen my apt in Rochester where I was using something like a TV tray (but smaller) as my coffee table. To finally have space for more than a glass of water is a beautiful thing!!


We also got some greenery for our apt. Who knew IKEA sold plants!!


And the kitchen...the heart of the home as they say.


This is one of the highlights of our building - The ROOFTOP! There are gardens, a grill, and a fantastic view of the city from up here.


Downtown Seattle & Queen Anne

Lake Union - 4 blocks away! Plus we get a view from our balcony!

Here we are cheers-ing to our new pad!


So on a different note - I finally decided to just do it - I went out and bought the Wii Fit (the last one in the store!) I have been wanting to buy it ever since Ben and I bought the Wii last September. I love it and play it everyday. Here are some pics of us playing the balance and step games!

Last of all I had to throw this picture in here of me and Macklemore. Ben and I had the pleasure of going to a concert last weekend to see some great hip hop. We were star struck when we saw Macklemore all dressed up in the crowd. He is one of our favorite artists and we are looking forward to seeing him perform on Monday(tomorrow)! BTW, he is dressed up goofy in this photo, he doesn't usually have a stash!

Anyway, that's all for now - hope everyone is doing great!