well for those of you follow this blog, i’m obviously working through my fear of the internet by blogging more. but i am still working on developing some kind of rule of blogging for myself, that i may post at some point. until then, my posts will be quite shallow and more informative about life that is happening. for now that is about all i’m comfortable with at this point.

with that said, this week marie and i are on vacation. we didn’t go anywhere, but have decided to stay in seattle and just spend time relaxing and enjoying our city. we’ve gotten lucky so far, since the weather has been beyond gorgeous. on monday we went with one of our housemates down to somewhat new sculpture park in seattle down by the water front. it was my first time walking through the whole thing, and it is quite nice even though it is a little on the small side. i hope to be able to spend some more time with the exhibits next time and do some more reflection on them. my favorite piece is the one in the picture. it spells out “love & loss” and the ‘&’ spins with the breeze. we followed that up by going to pike’s market and eating at beechers, which is an incredible local cheese place. they make and sell their own cheeses on the spot, along with panini sandwiches and soup. on tuesday we went over to lake washington and spent a couple of hours canoeing on the lake and later in the afternoon we went for a bike ride and a walk through the veterns seminary. today we spent the day doing landscaping around the house and are waiting for our pizza to arrive. so far the movies we’ve watched are ’school ties,’ ‘crash,’ and tonight we got ‘labyrinth’ through nextflix.