Monday, March 29, 2010

Tip-Toe Through the Tulips

We decided to enjoy the beautiful weather once again this past week and drove up north to the Tulip Festival with our friends Tyler and Stacy. We ended up packing a lot more into the day that we first expected, including trying two new restaurants, A Caprice Kitchen for breakfast in Ballard and Snooze Junction Pizza located in Greenwood. We also stopped by La Conner for some window shopping and Deception Pass, a favorite tourist spot of ours that T&S had never been to. We ended the day on a high note grabbing some coconut cream pie and fresh donuts at the Dahlia Lounge, bringing them back to our apartment and catching up on our Modern Family!

"It was the perfect DAY-cation!" Ben











We also spotted a field of gold daffodils!


La Conner, WA


Deception Pass, WA

Going on a cherry blossom hunt...

A lot of people are probably familiar with the children's book or song, "We're Going on a Bear Hunt." The book/song takes kids on a journey through a swamp, a river, up a tree, and finally to the Bear's cave. Once in the cave you discover the bear and you have to run back up the tree, through the river and swamp until you are safely home with the door locked behind you. This Halloween I discovered "Looking for Dracula," which has the same concept as the bear hunt, the kids I nanny for love it... in fact we are still listening to it in March!

Last week Ben had some books to return to UW, William and I thought we'd join him. Upon entering the campus one of the parking guys gave William a map. We told William that we would go on a "cherry blossom hunt!" As in years past the cherry blossoms are busting all over the UW campus and we thought it would be fun to stroll by while we were there.

William took this "hunt" quite seriously and referred to his map several times, pointing to where he thought the cherry blossoms might be. So just like in the song and book we had a few stops on our way to the blossoms.

First we had to climb the stairs of the Suzzallo Library:


Next Ben showed William were he did his "homework" in the reading room. William found it quite challenging to be quiet in this huge room!



Then we stopped by Warren G. Magnuson's desk, an enclosed section of the reading room where students are encouraged to study. William did his best Mr. Magnuson impersonations!

Finally we made it! William was so pleased with himself when we found the cherry blossoms! We enjoyed several games of hide n' seek, however, William didn't understand why he needed a hiding buddy! He didn't see anything wrong with us closing our eyes and having him run off to hide. Eek!



We've had some picture perfect weather in Seattle lately, so far our March has been very mild. Although since we've missed out on the usual rain I'm sure there will be cries of possible droughts this summer... just can't win can you?




Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Click

Ben and I got new cell phones this week, we both were feeling like we wanted an upgrade. Once the new phones arrived we had to go through the painful process of getting everything we wanted off our old phones, phone numbers, pictures, texts, etc. before ditching them. We emailed the photos to our inbox and when I went through them I found a few gems.

I remember when I first got a cell phone with a camera on it, I thought, what am I going to use this for? Mine has mainly been used for entertaining the kids I nanny. Here are a few of the photos I had of them on my phone, most of them I can't take credit for. They LOVE to take pictures with my phone!


Ben was much more creative with his camera phone, he actually had pictures of things or moments when I'm sure he thought "man I wish I had a camera."

He was able to capture waiting in line to watch President Obama's historic inauguration at the Paramount Theater downtown.



The last day the P-I was in circulation, a sad day for Seattleites.


A moment in Asbury Park, NJ- although I'm pretty sure I captured most of the shore that day with our camera, it was fun to see one of Ben's perspectives.


The greatest gem I came across was a picture I had forgotten all about. Last year while at the Cheesecake Factory Ben and I saw one of TV's latest villains... non other than Jason Mesnick, the "Bachelor." Let me explain:

When Ben and I found out that ABC's The Bachelor was to feature a Kirkland native we decided we had to tune in. (We even convinced a few of our friends to join in on the fun.) We didn't know the amount of drama that was about to unfold. Long story short he ended up proposing to Melissa on the finale and then during the after show (which for us was one hour later, for them about 3 months time) he DUMPED her and asked another girl from the show, Molly, to be his girl.

Now I know, it's a "reality" show who can really find love on The Bachelor, but none of us ever expected to see someone get dumped on live TV!

I don't remember why we went to the Cheesecake Factory that day, it's not a restaurant that we frequent but I'm glad we did. While finishing our meal (one week after The Bachelor's dramatic ending) who sat right behind us? JASON MESNICK. He came into the restaurant incognito, jacket collar up, cap pulled down to cover his face, I probably wouldn't have noticed him if I hadn't been sitting when he walked past. The angle in which I saw him made for a perfect ID. We desperately wanted to say something, but couldn't come up with anything nice or clever to say. So while I eves dropped on his conversation Ben decided to take a photo of the back of his hat. I am so glad Ben took the picture, I've been able to relive that funny moment from over a year ago while writing this post.


So what do you think... do you like your camera phone? I've discovered a new love for mine and I might try to take a page out of Ben's book and use mine to capture little moments rather than just cute kids. (They are cute though.) I think most people get a new phone every few years and it's kind of fun to think of your picture file on your phone as a little weird time capsule from the past few years. To close out this post I'm adding two photos of Ben that make me laugh from my phone. Ben is seriously one of the funniest people I've ever known. He's funny in a very subtle way. He's funny intentionally and unintentionally (my favorite kind of funny).


Unintentionally funny Ben while eating ice cream... somehow he didn't know he had a huge chocolate 'stache.


Intentionally funny Ben in his failed attempt to grow out his hair, I call this look The Rooster!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

I'll Be There

What a difference a lame theme song can make. Imagine if one of the alternate universes in Lost used the theme from Baywatch for their theme song.


Can't wait to see what happens tonight!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Who Is School? My School!

Last week I was proud of my school for two big accomplishments...

The Huskies men's hoops team beat Oregon State, Stanford, and Cal to win the Pac-10 tournament title! Good luck Thursday against Marquette.

And...

epic fail pictures
Last Thursday while on one of my daily web haunts, I was pleased to see that my fellow students made the site. I'm sure our blog has had (and will continue to have) its fair share of typos but I'd like to think if I was going to protest budget cuts I would have double checked my sign. However, my favorite misspelled sign still is this one.