8 Things

Thanks Margo for the Tag!

8 Things...here we go, forgive me if I can't get to 8. If I get half I will be impressed.

8 Television shows I watch....
Grey's
The Office
Biggest Loser
90210
King of Queens
Wheel of Fortune
Today Show
Private Practice

8 Favorite Restaurants....
Macayos (AZ)
Chino Bandido (AZ)
PF Changs
Goody's (ID)
Olive Garden (ID)
Doc's Pizza (ID)
River's End (CA)

8 Books I've read recently....
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
A Walk to remember
The Secret Lives of Bees

8 Things that happened yesterday....
I went home sick
Went for a walk with Walle and Bernie (Wilson and Sugar's new names)
Ate lunch with Katie
Watched TV....Oprah,HGTV,News,Office,Father of the Bride II,Grey's.
Cleaned the kitchen
Laundry
Listen to Bernie (Wilson) snore
Made a really tasty salad

8 Things I am looking forward to....
Moving to Seattle
Moving into my new house
Seeing Raul
Cleaning Day
Mary's Party
Seeing Bolt with girls form work
Seeing my puppies when I get home
Eating lunch

8 Things I wish for....
Safe travels up to Seattle
Not to be sick anymore
To find a great job
People at work to find some light during this merge
A great holiday season
I will be able to finish the Marathon in January
Wilson to lose some weight
Raul to be here

8 People I'm tagging...
Kasey
Katie E
Katie H
Becky M
Kathay
Neeka
Melanie H
Mary

Mission Accomplished

Things are busy as normal around here. I went up to Seattle this weekend to find a place to rent. Raul had picked out a few places and we ended up picking a cute house less than 2 miles away from the University. It is in a really nice neighborhood. Three bedrooms, two baths, nice back yard, DISHWASHER, and a cute living room. I feel really good about our decision. This house hunting was difficult for me. I hate making decisions like this. I had it made last year because Raul had our placed picked out before I came out to Long Beach. So the pressure was on for me to make the final decision. Like I said, I feel good about it. We will really enjoy it and so will the dogs.

Raul was awesome this weekend. He had so many things planned and took such good care of me. Some of the stuff we did:
House hunted
Pike's Place Market -downtown where they throw the fish
Columbia Building-70+ stories high to see the city
Ate lunch at the Sleepless in Seattle place on the water
Went for a beautiful run along the water
UW Football game vs ASU
Romantic dinner at a Thai restaurant
Met some new friends
Had awesome complementary breakfast in the hotel every morning

The Internet was really slow and I wanted to post some pictures but they will just have to wait. So basically the mission was to find a place for us to live....Mission Accomplished!

Halloweenie

I wanted to post a few pictures of my halloween weekend. I had an event of Saturday and dressed up as Olivia Newton John on Saturday and Friday at work I was a tennis player. It was a lot of fun. I wish that Raul would have been there. My friend Mayra is going to kill me for posting this picture...Sorry hun. The othe pic is of my other co-worker Melissa helping me pack popcorn hands for the event.

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.