sunsets & pike place market

   The sky was on fire last night, it was hard not to marvel at the beautiful sunset God presented us with. From our front windows we have a front seat to every sunset, the one we experienced last night was perfect, I only wish I had the right lens to capture it's entire beauty, but since I don't, I had to make due...

   The air was crisp this morning as Kim and I bundled up for our weekly journey to Pike Place Market. I say weekly, but what I really mean is our semi-weekly journey, aka we've only gone twice in two months! However, it is sure to become a favourite past time. So we bundled and bounded down to the market making a couple necessary stops on the way, one to the mailbox to post a letter to my sister in Oregon and one to my bank to deposit a check and withdraw the much needed funds for our adventure...and this weeks groceries. So by 9:20am there we were, being baked alive in the stifling bakery we've come to love known as Le Panier! Wonderful place, if you ever have the honour to grace Seattle with your presence you must stop in. We sipped our Americano's and nibbled(or swallowed whole) our chocolate croissants while we sat at our usual table.
   Although you wouldn't know it if you only ever saw the inside of the crowded bakery, I can tell that the tourism season is almost at a close. We walked through the market and had no trouble not bumping into complete strangers as we browsed the flowers. Since I had the pleasure of choosing the last bunch we purchased, the honour was all Kim's. She picked out a beautiful bouquet with white and purple dahlia's, dark leaves, and green pom pom types of filler! It is simply gorgeous, and of course looks perfect in our apartment. We are now home listening(again) to Christmas music on the record player, tidying up a bit, and getting ready for the day ahead.

fall is here

The much anticipated and extremely welcomed fall season is upon us! This season marks the beginning of my favourite part of the year...the holiday season!!! My sister and I have welcomed the new season by unpacking our 'winter' clothes (which by the way we packed up only about a month ago), listening to Christmas music (I know, a bit extreme), decorating, and hosting, and attending fun fall parties! We had a curry night with our friends and attendedwhat I thought was going to be a fun corn maze afterwards...turns out it was a 'haunted' corn maze. We spent hours in line only to be chased through the maze by men with chain saws, witches, and scary girls with blood all over! Now that I can take 'travel through a scary corn maze' off my bucket list I can live a bit easier knowing I'll never have to do it again. Pumpkin carving was also on our fall agenda...the first time either one of us had carved a pumpkin. The night started off with dinner at our friends house, then a trip to the pumpkin patch known as Trader Joes, we then took our prized organic pumpkins and gutted them and made careful incisions which resulted in cute fall pumpkins. Our meal plans have lately tended to lean more towards soups and warm feeling meals, so in honour of this I made pot pies yesterday..            I was a bit nervous while preparing them, I had to re-make the gravy because our $200 stove decided to turn off half way through without my knowledge...hooray for cheap apartment appliances...I used canned chicken for the first time in the pies, and as if that wasn't enough my sister looked on and decided it would be the best time to ask me, with a hint of worry in her voice, if I was using a recipe or just making it up. But God is great, and they were good!I love the fall...stay long and go slowly please.