The Washington Report

First, let's take note of my witty post title. Oh ho ho. Okay so part of me wants to stay loyal to Texas and say it's just awful here but it's not. We love it here. 

Here are some of the things we're loving...
(if you click on the pic you can see a hi-res version)

Fresh fruit! Blueberries, blackberries, cherries, nectarines, blah blah blah we have yet to try fruit that isn't fabulous. 

Downtown Seattle! We've only actually gone downtown once, that's how many things there are to do here in Bellevue. But Seattle is just so cool. So much to do.

Downtown Bellevue! It has some of the best shopping I've ever seen. Adorable little shops and a great big park that is very Central Park-esque. The fireworks we watched on the Fourth were spectacular too.

Hiking! It's been really awesome to have the great outdoors so accesible. We literally live on a mountain (weird weird weird) so trails are minutes away from our front door. The above pic is so heinous but I was trying to show that it was cold enough (42 degrees thank you very much) that we could see our breath. It was too funny not to put up. And the slugs... yeah they're everywhere it's disgusting. They're so so big too. Blech. Makes me feel sick.

We love our house. It's really pretty and the backyard is huge and perfect. We feel so blessed and very happy!

The wildlife. And I'm actually not loving it. I think it's weird and hilarious. This is a dead mole. There are cougars and wolfs and bears and snakes that have been spotted in our neighborhood. Wahoo!

And now that the sunshine has fiiiiinaaaaaaaaally come out, we can finally appreciate the reason that Bellevue  is French for 'Beautiful View.'

We are so grateful for the warm welcome we've received. There are so many good people here! But we miss our Texas friends very much! Visits are encouraged :)