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busy

Life is ridiculous busy right now.

Not spending very much time in my apartment at all. In short, between 2 jobs & 6 classes I've been rather swamped with work.

Got a chance to go to some hockey games though. (ie. i'm never too busy for hockey). Unfortunately both the men's and women's teams lost Saturday night (women ended up 2nd in the nation for d3).

Rochester has been extra kind lately and produced some lovely sunny weather (except for today) to make up for the extra snowy winter.

Next blog post: round up of classes for this quarter (which somehow we are already in week 3 of, not quite sure how that one happened...)

seattle

Seattle came next. We ended up having to take a bus due to a mudslide but we got there safe and sound so everything was okay.

Seattle is definitely a larger more happening city-- and slightly less on the crunchy granola hippy side. I think personally I preferred Portland a little more because it was a wee bit smaller & easy to get from one point to another quickly. Plus they had fantastic transportation. And the world's largest bookstore.

However, Seattle had a pretty neat Library. And it just so happened that the twice a year window washers were there. If I ever want to get into extreme sports, I'll just try that.

Plus we finally got to enjoy some vitamin D so what's not to like?

We checked out the skylines.

and the Seattle Aquarium!

Seattle has an awesome waterfront. It was decided that if you smooshed together Portland along with Seattle's market & waterfront it would be the best city ever.

We also posed in some elevators...

And drank our weight in coffee.

Seattle had some rather hilly streets.

Which just made me think about how cool it would be to roll bouncy balls down them. Like so...

It should also be noted that I tried meat. I believe it looked something like this. But luckily slightly less cute.

next up: the companies! and more pictures probably. because everyone likes parfaits... i mean.. pictures

portland: part one

Overall great trip to the northwest. I've been distracted all day thinking about ways to hop a plane back there.

We drank some coffee and posed on street corners.

Took turns giving piggyback rides to the 8 year old that came on the trip.

Saw awesome views of the city.

Visited the Columbia River Gorge & Multanoma Falls

Ate some doughnuts from the famous Voodoo doughnuts-- vegan coconut, yum!

And posed on every available park bench (I believe we hit over 20 of them)

And that was Portland... stay tuned for some Seattle pics & details of company visits.

what's for dinner?

oh hey look! i can post while i'm gone. (wrote this last week, sneaky.)

bet you're wondering what to make for dinner tonight... (MOM). may i suggest some tofu?

you can even marinate it right in the container. i won't tell.

and if your tofu(s?) get a wee bit juicy, i won't tell either. that just makes it extra delicious.

and if you want to get real fancy, you can put your tofu on a bed of lettuce (who the heck came up with that phrasing-- a bed of lettuce would be weird and crunchy. anyway.). but if you're like me, you might accidentally eat most of that lettuce before the tofu is done.

remember because it was extra juicy so it took longer? not to mention it's 10 pm at night and you're kind of hungry. so eating thing out of the pan/plate is acceptable. plus it's not like you're going to share with anyone...

but that's okay, one piece of lettuce for photographs will do. you got your greens either way.

And one final round of deliciousness...

homemade vegan granola bars.

don't bother asking how long these will last because i haven't a clue. can't seem to keep them around for more than a few days.