Another Month, Another Dream, but Always BLOG!

 Geez. Another month (June) with no posts. This is what we've been up to.

We moved to Atlanta because Norm got a crazy awesome promotion to Executive Chef at this place:

Four days after that, we went on a cruise - no, Norm didn't take the picture, our tour guide Luke did. Norm didn't get to go because of work issues. His hotel was scheduled to open while we were on vacation, so he couldn't go. We've been back for two weeks now and hotel still not open. Enough of that.

After cruising for a week, we spent time in Seattle:

And Beautiful British Columbia - this is Vancouver:

My pups (and my husband) were so happy when I finally got back home! I missed them so dearly:

The Monday after being back I started work at this place and it consists of this:

My Desk

Amazing Cookie

Traffic

Living in Atlanta is going to cause a problem with two main sectors of our life. 1 - Food. There are a bazillion  amazing restaurants that we need to go eat at. Like my friend Kerrie said, Groupon is going to be the best route on experiencing these places. Gotta get the deals, gotta get the deals. 2 - Entertainment. There are a bazillion concerts, shows, festivals, that take place. As a surprise, Norm bought us tickets to go see Juanes!! 

And later on in October, we won (the chance to purchase) tickets to go see Jack Johnson at the Fox - that is going to be out of this world. Can't wait.

So life goes on in the rental house (pictures to follow). Cali likes to look out the window:

 And we finally bought Pellet a ThunderShirt:

He seems to like it, the only problem is that he won't lay down when he has it on. Instead he just paces and pants around the house - which is much better than that high-pitched-freakout-bark he does when he gets anxious.

So living in Atlanta is certainly going to be an adjustment - this is a truck that I ended up next to (in traffic), they were protesting against an education group that is having a convention ALL OVER downtown (like 15,000 people.... and that's one of the smallest conventions that takes over).

My opinion: if you are going to bash education,
at least make sure you spell your stuff right
[check out the spelling - and correction -
of the word "Judgement"]

And to wrap things up (for now) - this is the sort of weather we've been having for a week and it looks like it's not going to get any better. Pretty sure we are starting to grow scales with all the water we have sitting around.

St. Augustine

For the most part, a 4.5 hour car ride (one way) is not part of a "day trip". Due to circumstances (such as expenses and Norm having to be at work at 8:00am Saturday morning to count inventory), we drove down to St. Augustine on Friday to pick up Norm's car from the shop. Since we had already made the drive, we figured we would spend a few hours in the area looking around.

First off we visit the Cathedral which is located on the main square. 

We walked down St. George Street and ate lunch at Columbia Restaurant. So tasty! And such a pretty place!

Then we continued down St. George Street and came across this, the oldest wooden school house in the  country!

We also came across a store that sold (and provided free tastings) of tropical fruit wines. It was very interesting... we bought Passion Fruit Wine. Because it wasn't hot enough and because we were going to be sitting down in the car for another 4.5 hours on our trip back home, we kept walking and got to the Castillo San Marcos, we didn't pay to go inside, just sight-saw (past tense of sight-see??) around it:

From there we drove to the Shrine of Nuestra Senora de la Leche y Buen Parto - the first shrine dedicated to Mary in the country. It is located on the grounds of the very first mission, which was founded in September of 1565!

Pretty street. Notice the moss is growing on the cables:

After that we stopped for a pastry at Denoel, a french pastry shop, but it was about to close, so we took our pastry to-go and ate it by the park. Before we headed home, we went to see the ocean, didn't swim though, can't go to the coast and not at least see the ocean. It's so beautiful...

Colorado [at last]

 This post has been due for about two weeks now, please accept my apologies, I welcome your forgiveness.

We had the opportunity to head out to Colorado (mainly Denver) in May and we got to Sight See:

Larimer Square Market

Buffalo Bill's Grave

Cathedral of Denver

Rockies

Boulder, CO

We also got to enjoy the sights and each other's company:

Celestial Seasonings Factory Tour

Wild Wild West - at Buffalo Bill's Museum

 We also got to eat (lots) and drink (fun drinks):

Moscow Mule

At the Cruise Room, Oxford Hotel

We got to spend time with friends (who are family!)

 Then we got to attend a wedding rehearsal!

And a rehearsal dinner (which involved drinks) of course:

And finally, we got to attend The Wedding of Nicky and Amir on May 19!!!

Awesome weather, awesome extra pounds, awesome memories.