Hawaii?!

A woman at one of my schools is married to a Kiwi. I talked to her today about how she gets to NZ; she said that since she has kids, they break up the long flight by stopping over in Hawaii. Now THERE's an idea!! Bryce and I looked up flight info and it's totally feasible; just a few 100 bucks each for us to fly there. We're pretty excited because losing out on our Summer by spending it in Southern Hemisphere's winter sounded a bit dreary. Hawaii might make us feel A LOT better. We're going to see if we can use one of our timeshares in Honolulu to make the trip even cheaper. Plus the trip will coincide nicely with our first wedding anniversary!

Goals

So I don't beleive in N.Y. Resolutions.
I read someone quoted as saying they're a procrastinators excuse and while I'm the ultimate procrastinator I don't partake. I like to pick any day to make a change.
However it just so happens to be the 4th and I'm thinking of goals. I'm going to keep the published ones limited to physical goals.
My life has changed a lot since the last time I really made a goal list. I decided to start the climbing that I've always wanted to do last year but I haven't truly made a goal list...
So here I go...
Use ellipses less in my online posting... J/k
Run a new type of race, I've ran two 1/2 marathons now. I've improved and want to continue to improve but need a new challenge. See below post...
Get a stamp on my passport Julie encouraged me to finally get my passport, now it's time to use it. The worlds an amazing place, or so I've read and heard.
Snowboard my rear off 360s, boxes, big air grabs, exiting a super pipe and carving the Nat(sh). A late start of the season is no excuse to not hit 40, and why aren't I hiking more once the lifts stop.
Climbing is my summer snowboarding That means train, study, get better, stronger, faster, etc. I need another volcanic summit this year.

Mountain to Sound Relay, Who's in?

23 mi mtn bike
50 mi road bike
12mi kayak
13.5 mi run
6 mi "sprint"
From Snoqualmie pass to Golden Garden park
June 21st. Unfortunately it's only 6 days before the Seattle(Bellevue) Rock'n'roll marathon I want to do.
I'm thinking I'd like to do the 6 mi if I can piece together a team...

"snow" day

Today the school district canceled school due to snow, except the expected snow never came. Bryce worked from home since it did snow a ton in Everett. It is 9:23 PM and it STILL hasn't snowed a bit all day. I spent the day noshing on xmas cookies and getting chores done.

Feds drop interest rates to near zero

Ok the gov is making it awfully hard to NOT want to buy a house with the money we've saved for NZ. Now I'm falling asleep at night dreaming of fixing up cute little ramblers in Woodinville...

Poor plants

Here's a before picture of our banana trees, sometime in November.


Here's an after picture I took today after temperatures in the 20's for the past few days.
:-(

The agave (in the back) actually isn't doing too bad! I want a ton of agave when we get a house.

Cookies and Ice

Sunday morning we took an icy somewhat dangerous walk to the sculpture park.




Then I took an icy, somewhat dangerous drive to West Seattle to bake Christmas cookies with Christine and her coworker, Kelly, at a church kitchen.