Life on the Fast Track

It has been a while since our last posting. Life has been a highway with Greg and I blazing through at 100mph.

With Birthdays and farewells, work has filled my social calender this month.

- At the end of April, Greg was out of town for a conference. However, I was kept busy. I picked up my wedding dress and the bridesmaid dresses. I also, went to Matilda's and Ian's Birthday Party. Matilda and Ian are dating and yes, thier birthdays are close to each other. I had a great time!

- Valerie: A french woman with her doctorate, her birthday was May 9th and we went to House of Hong for dim sum.

- Crush: I went to this restaurant for the Urban Bite event with my work. The Urban Bite is an event for the local people to try new restaurants. Located on the corner of Madison and 23rd. We were disappointed with this restaurant and non of us will be going back anytime soon.

- Jason, one of Greg's roommate, had a post-surgery party. We watched his surgery on the tv and served Bloody Mary drinks.

- Chris has left our lab to a biotech company in Los Angeles. We have gone to his farewell BBQ and I went to a work lunch to celebrate his new adventure in life.

- Also, I have been cat sitting for my friends Rae and Andrew, whom are visiting Andrew's parents in Toronto. I love their cat, Layla! She is such a sweetie. I rarely like cats, but there are a few that warms my heart.

- Quarter Lounge is a bar. We go monthly to meet my friends, Bobbie and Barb. I have known Bobbie since my freshmen year of college. I am very happy to still be in touch with her. After Quarter Lounge, we went to Iaela's condo for dinner. Iaela works for Greg.

- The day after Quarter Lounge, Greg's footy mate Chris "Stearns" had a BBQ. His girlfriend, Kathi, who is also chinese, is doing the flowers for the our wedding. We had a great time! And great food!

- Connect Cell Group: This is a small bible study group to help meet more Christians at our church. We discussed about Spiritual Power

- Marriage Counseling: We went yesterday. To be honest, we are really enjoying these session with Terry! Thanks Terry! He has been fabulous. Just when Greg and I thought we talked about everything, we were surprised that we haven't talked very much about children. We have talked about how many we want. However, we had blank looks when asked if we know what kind of characters we want our children to have. ????

- Some where in between our social calendar and Greg's weekly sports activity on top of our weekly church attendance, we actually have cross off some items off the wedding list!
* We ordered our WEDDING Bands! from E.E Robbins
* We have submitted our order for our INVITATIONS!
* I have purchased my sash for my wedding dress :)
* Meet with Auntie Lydia and talked about planning a rehersal dinner.

Yikes! We are leaving early Friday morning to visit George and Karen in Montana over Memorial weekend!

Our First Razor Clam Digging Adventure

After a 5 hour drive that was suppose to take only 3 and half hours, we finally arrive to the pitch black grounds of Cape Disappoinment with the fog horns in the distance. As, we drove through the winding roads to our Yurt, we had no idea of what lies ahead of us. Being city folks, we knew this Yurt was going to make our trip fun or miserable. Prepared for the impending coldness, I(Cheryl) wore my fleece socks and three layers of shirts. As we pulled up to the Yurt, we shouted in the car with tremendous joy. We almost tip the car over from jumping up and down in our seats.

The HEATER, and lightswitch were used immediately! After we unloaded the car, we kicked our feet up, sit back and brew ourselves a cup of tea. In the spirit of Saint Patrick's Day we had Irish Breakfast Tea while we played a few games of scrabble.


The next day, we decided to visit the 2 lighthouses in the area, since the best time to clam dig wasn't until 4pm. Both lighthouses were only a 10 minutes drive away.


The first one, was a retired lighthouse. We paid to climb up to the top, where several cameras were mounted to record the errosion of the beach. The very same beach we will later be on to dig our clams! Eck! We never knew how cool lighthouses were!






The second lighthouse was on Cape Disappointment and is still being used today! (We weren't allowed in) It wasn't from sheer excitement of learning more about lighthouse, but rather it began pouring rain and strong winds.





When 4pm rolled around, we put on our "space suits" and hit the beach! The beach was only a minute away. So, we walked onto it with our CLAM GUN!





Yes! We are eating them! Yum! We had such GREAT time that we can't wait for next year!

Some Dirt

Before dating, Greg and I spent many lunch breaks, as science nerds do, talk about the technicality of gardening. Does the soil have the right pH? nitrogen? or potassium?

Steming from our past (pun intended), we recently began our adventure together on growing heirloom tomatoes together. Despite that it looks borderline illegal, needless to say, we will soon be proud parents of specialty heirlooms! The funny green plant is a Shamrock slowly working its way to join the compost pile.

The seeds were purchased from the good ole internet (http://www.rareseeds.com/) under Red Tomatoes. They are the "German Red Strawberry" and the Principe Borghese, which won the 2006 Seattle Tilth Tomatoe Tasting http://www.seattletilth.org/events/06ttresults.

I spent the most of my April Fool's Day preparing the soil for my tomatoes plants. I reckon it will take another 3 weeks before I can do so!