I love Seattle

Raul and I drove up to Seattle this weekend. For Raul, it was his moving weekend and for me, it was a sit in the car, sing, tell funny jokes, and sight see weekend while keeping Raul company. The drive was AMAZING and I was so anxious to see what this place looked like in person. Along the way we spotted a lot of deer and beautiful trees. There was also a Moose head in the back of this guys pick up. So what do I do? I got the camera out and started taking pictures of it. It was pretty big as you can see. I thought of my friend Kasey when I saw all of the hunters driving down the road (She is a hunter). It was so nice to see "FALL". I love this season and I am so happy to be going to a place where the leaves turn lots of different colors. Raul and I talked to his parents a couple times along the way on his IPhone and we got to talk together with ear phones in. It was really neat. As we pulled up to the city, I was in awe. Everything was so immaculate. The water surrounding the city was like nothing I had ever seen before. The sky was blue and everything was so green. It is official, I love Seattle. I am so excited to move there and I know that it is going to be a great place for all of us.

Audra's List

I have this mental list of things that I want to do before I die and I think I try to point them out as much as possible but I would like to try something different. My friend Katie has a list on her refrigerator of all the things that she wants to do in the new place she lives in called of course "The List". I have had the privilege of helping her cross some of those things off. I am so honored to say that because it has almost become legendary in our conversations so I want to have an "Audra's List". I want to put a bunch of things that I want to do and see in Seattle. I have the typical points of interest such as the Space Needle, Ferry Boats and Pike Place. Does anyone have a cool and unique restaurant or park or suggestion that would be neat for me and Raul to see and visit?

We are Moving

I have some exciting news. Raul was offered the assistant track coach position at the University of Washington. So....We are Moving! The dogs and I will be staying here in Long Beach until the 1st of December. Raul is hoping to head out in about a week. I can't believe it all happened so fast. It is a big time PAC 10 school. I have never been to Seattle but it is something that I have on my list of things to do before I die. I will be sad to leave my life in Long Beach...sun for shade but I am really looking forward for the future. I have lots of high hopes for us there. I love new adventures. I'm sad that Raul will be gone but happy that it will only be about a month until I'm up there. I am really proud of him. He will be great up there. Go Huskies!

The Getty

A couple of weekends ago Raul, Kelly, John and I went to the Getty up in LA. This museum looks over the entire city and is full of really interesting and unique art. The coolest thing about it was that it was free....that is pretty hard to find around LA. They had some really neat exhibits like Bernini's sculptures. They were life like sculptures that were chiseled and carved out of marble. Seriously amazing. We couldn't take any pictures inside but take my word for it....Amazing and really old. It was my first time in a museum like that and so I was really overwhelmed with how old things were. The entire museum was built out of stone. It was a lot of fun and I would definitely recommend going if you have the chance. The second picture of Raul and I...forehead kiss, is funny because we saw some people taking engagement pictures, Kelly said that it was really excessive, so we decided to take some of those. It was fun.