What's in Bloom

Spring is just around the corner! I would like to introduce what it in bloom at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden now.

Bainbridge Island

Wil and I visited Bainbridge Island last Saturday.  We took Washington State Ferry from downtown Seattle to Bainbridge Island, which took only about 35 minutes.  The ferry ride was really fun experience! It was chilly out, but we were out on the deck the whole time. I would definitely do this again. We found a cute little restaurant called Cafe Nola (http://cafenola.com/).  They had an amazing pecan caramel french toast. I mean, it was heavenly!  Wil ordered some breakfast, which looked really good too.  After the brunch, we walked around the main street, visited some shops and art gallerias. One the way back, we head south to Tacoma and came back home.　It was a good day!

1st Full Week of Class

I start my first full week of class today.  I went to one class last week, but since school did not start until Tuesday I didn't have my Monday course.  Today is Teaching ESL Reading, tomorrow Morphology.  I am looking forward to both.  Also this week, I begin tutoring for ACE's core programs again.  Three students this time since I will have to juggle schedules with the Korean teachers I am working with this week and the first week of February.  It's going to be an interesting schedule!

Ryoko's Visit

My best friend, Ryoko, was visiting Seattle over the New Year.  I was able to take off from work for the entire time she was here.  It was only 6 days, but we had so much fun together!  Here are some of the things we did.

Mt. Rainer and Us

Darma Learns To Bow

Atsuko, with a little trickery, was able to get to get Darma to bow.  It is a very cute little video, one that ends with Darma quickly changing her attention to something more important.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIDxgcKB5-A

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to our family and friends.  Wish we could be with you this year!

Grean Tea Oatmeal Cookies

I made cookies Sunday night. Turned out pretty good so here is the recipe!

Gaming @ DTwenty Games

It's no secret that I play Dungeons and Dragons.  I have a great time on Wednesday night playing a weekly schedule brawl with a loose storyline.  Once or twice a month, a group of us get together to adventure in the world of Athas and the Dark Sun campaign setting.  It was unfortunate though that this week we were missing two of our regular players.  Our scheduled story was postponed for a little more light-hearted though no less fun adventure fighting evil lizard men that had tricked our adventurers into believing that they were attended a wrestling match.  It was a fun 5 hours, and I got a delicious scone as well.  Yum!  I wanted to post a few pictures... they aren't the best but what do you expect from a phone?

Darma Video

Darma's leg was very touchy yesterday.  Whenever I tapped it she kicked.  It looked like she was trying to start a motorcycle or something for some reason.  We shot a small video towards the end.  It's a stupid video, but Darma is cute and that is all that matters!