Space Ice Cream!

Hello everyone. This is Kyle and I am writing a guest post on Abby’s blog. Yesterday we went to Fry’s electronics to pick up a few things. As usual I spent longer at Fry’s than I expected and picked up a few extra things. Fry’s is am amazing place. Kind of like a mixture of Futureshop and a local computer shop that does not suck.


So on the way out I picked up some Astronaut ice cream. This stuff feels like Styrofoam until you get it in your mouth and then it dissolves into ice cream!

If you want some leave a comment and I will mail you a package!

Well everything else here is going well. Abby, Astra and I went on a tour of the Theo’s chocolate factory last weekend and that was interesting but we don’t have any pictures :( we forgot the camera battery so we will have to go again (darn). Here is a link to the factory: http://www.theochocolate.com/

Well that is it for today. TTFN Kyle

Happy Anniversary To Us!!! Victoria, B.C Weekend

Beautiful city of Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, I can't believe I've never been out west of Canada before!!! Looks like the sky is always blue with boats bobbing in the waters and tourists everywhere! We boarded the Victoria Clipper ferry from Pier 69 in Seattle as part of their overnight package. It took 2 and 1/2 hours from Puget Sound into the Strait of Juan de Fuca leading into Victoria's Inner Harbour. The trip was pleasant enough, the clipper is a catamaran that seats about 300 people and travels approximately 30 mph.

As soon as we arrived, a bus took us on a quick tour of the city before dropping us off at Butchart Gardens. We had lunch, then strolled through the Italian gardens, the Japanese gardens, Rose garden and sunken garden. The pictures speak for themselves.

We had a yummy seafood dinner and spent the next day walking around the city. We headed over to old chinatown and Fan Tan Alley, one of the narrowest alleys in Canada. Visited the underseas garden, which is like an underwater aquarium featuring sealife from around the harbour. The main attraction was the octopus and diver feeding the Wolf eel crabs. Barb's fish and chips was one of the best I've had in a long time at Fisherman's Wharf! So yeah, we had a good trip :)






Kyle, the roses pale in comparison with your beauty!

Washington Plates...The Evergreen State

Finally, we received our car import papers and got to register our cars and in turn get new Washington plates. How ironic, my Ontario license plate renewal arrived the same day! It's time to let it go...

So, I think I need a shiny new car to go with my shiny new plates (sometimes Kyle reads my blog) ;)

Don't Be Fooled....Deception Pass & Chuckanut Trail

This labour day we took a drive to Oak Harbor, an hour and a half trip north of Kirkland. We walked over and under Deception pass bridge to trails leading to a beautiful beach. This bridge is not for the faint of heart, look all the way down and you see fast moving, bluish-green waters swirling beneath. I love pebbly beaches and decided to um.."relocate" some rocks. After that we drove along Chuckanut trail/Highway 11 that took us past flat farmlands, winding up the mountain where the road seems to narrow on one side with rock faces and the other side, a steep drop into Padilla Bay. We looked out at beautiful views of the bay during low tide and stopped in Fairhaven for lunch.






Tune in next weekend, we'll be celebrating 15 years together!! Wowzer!! I've known Kyle for half my life!!

We Had Visitors!!!

Wow, seems like I'm really behind on my blogging, only one post in August!! tsk, tsk. Anyhow, the weather was really nice in August, warm breeze, blue skies and puffy clouds. Then when my Bro, sister-in-law and kids showed up, it got really hot and humid for two days, then cooled down and started to rain :(

Kirkland kondos was booked for 1 week and what an exciting week it was....whining, crying, running and playing, who knew Kyle would act like that! Hah, no, the kids were really great and had lots of fun..I think. We miss them now, it's so quiet around here. We went to the Seattle aquarium, Duck tours, Pike's Marketplace and shopping at Bellevue Square, Seattle Premium and North Bend outlets. I was excited to play tourguide and tourist at the same time. Thanks for the great times and hopefully you guys are planning another trip to Seattle again sometime soon. Miss ya!