Koala Tea Towels & More

The first weekend of Spring 2006 was a busy one for us! We started Friday night with dinner at Phuket before heading to Beast's housewarming party. It was a night full of Aussie fun, including homemade sausage rolls, great quotes and a nightcap at Ozzie's. Margaret and I agreed on our favorite quote from the night: "You burned my koala tea towels, you b*stard!" That was Beast, after one of his buddies accidentally set his tea towels on a hot burner. Also, Dave made a gallant effort to challenge me in my paparazzi-ness. Good effort! But no chance.




Saturday was spent doing errands and yard work. Cowboy got to spend most of the day with his best dog-buddy Tilly. She lives next door and they play together every day. While he and Tilly were playing in Tilly's yard, Chris was destroying ours. He got rid of the creepy sandbox and all of the weeds and ivy around the base of the tree. It's amazing how much better the yard looks now -- it's a clean slate instead of an overgrown jungle. In addition to the yard work, Chris enlisted the help of Finn and Joel to cut down the random antenna pole that was attached to the side of our house. He lured them over with promises of beer and basketball, and instead had them hard at work on top of our roof.

Saturday night, we headed to the Triple Door for Point B's anniversary celebration. They really know how to throw a party! The meal was catered by Wild Ginger (yes, the same place we went for our Seattle wedding reception dinner), they had a Bubble Room and Point B-Tini Room, and Hit Explosion played all night. We got to catch up with Reyn & Amy, Susie & Justin, Kyle & Sarah, Kirby & Cammie, Mark B...and we even talked to a few people who aren't ex-Accenturites! It was a lot of fun and Amy and I thoroughly enjoyed hanging out in the "make-out room" with the other wives.



Today, Margaret and I attempted to hike to Mason Lake while Chris continued to unleash his fury on the backyard. I say we "attempted" because we never made it to the lake, and I don't think we were anywhere near it. We followed a trail through the snow, but it seems that the trail-blazer lost the actual trail and was just trying to find a way up the mountain. After a couple hours of hiking up some seriously steep switchbacks, we found ourselves crossing a very sketchy avalanche chute. It was steep enough that we actually got vertigo if we looked downhill. Apparently, that was where everyone else who'd followed the tracks decided to turn around (including the person who made the tracks in the first place), so we followed suit. So the hike turned into a bit more backcountry than we were expecting, but it was still a good day. Cowboy had a great time, especially when he found something disgusting to roll in. That little caper resulted in freshly-bathed Cowboy later in the evening.



After a trip to Pet Daddy to clean Cowboy up, we had our first BBQ of the year. Finn and Joel dropped by to enjoy some steaks -- it was the least we could do after coercing them into the antenna project yesterday. It was nice to have them over and to start the BBQ season. I'm looking forward to the sunnier days ahead of us!