The Travel Bug

Ten places that I would like to visit (in no particular order)

1. Greece
2. Hawaii
3. The Galapagos Islands
4. Egypt
5. Sydney, Australia (and side trip to Fiji)
6. P.E.I.
7. London, England (and Platform 9 and 3/4)
8. Jerusalem
9. Thailand
10. Russia

Eating Turkey

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Home Sweet Home

I guess it is finally time to put up some pictures on our new apartment. Hope you enjoy the tour. And remember, we manage the building, so our rent is very cheap!

Here is the entry, nothing too special. The laminate floors are nice, but never stay clean.

If you turn right from the entry there is the hall to the kitchen and living room.

The kitchen. No dishwasher...which is why I have Chris!!

This is the view of the living room from the dining room.

Outside our front window. We have a balcony and inherited the BBQ from the previous tenants. We also inherited the curtains.

Finally some people that actually live in the apartment!!

Chillin' out on our couches. We had a bit of an ordeal with these. After one deal fell through (not a happy story) we found these on cragislist and got a really good deal. They are 4 years old and look brand new. At least all worked out in the end.

If you turn left from the entry is the hall to the bathroom and bedrooms.

Our bathroom....very small. You can only stand in it with the door all the way open, or all the way closed. Notice the bathroom...and it looks like we need to change the toliet paper roll!

This is our study and the guest bedroom. Here is my study corner.

And here is Chris' desk. He is currently working on a 3D puzzle of the Millennium Falcon we got a Value Village for $3.oo. I'm majorly impressed cause I could never put something like that together.

Also note the turkey pillow I sewed in grade 8 Home Ec.

And finally our bedroom. The best part, which you can't see, is that we have 'his' and 'hers' closets. It's great. No more sharing, cause Chris really took up a lot of space!!

Something fishy

This is our new fish, Penelope. She's a very pretty and quite active fish. We've actually had her for almost a month now. For those of who you don't know our fish past, two years ago I went home for Christmas and left my fish Sealena in the care of my boyfriend Chris. I came back and my fish was dead. That's all I'm going to say, those are the facts, you can make your own inferences, I know I've made mine....

Success!

Chocolate chip cookies have been the bain of my existence, but no longer is that so! I made the most delicious batch today. Crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside. Chris himself said they were amongst the best chocolate chip cookies he has ever had (I am aware he probably is a little bias). Anyways, thank you to all who had tips and advice. I received multiple no fail recipes and this was only the first I tried, I have to say that I am hesitant to try anything else, now that I finally got it down. And I also updated some of my ingredients, thanks to Alicia for that tip.

Enjoying the Season

I feel like I have been in school closer to 2 months than the actual 1 month it has been! It's been pretty busy, but for the most part I am enjoying it. Still pretty nervous to actually start teaching, I'd better start reviewing the curriculum.

This fall, however has been wonderful. The weather has been so nice which is quite a change from previous Edmonton falls. We've had weather all week around 25 celcius and the leaves have changed making the walk home from school beautiful. Hopefully it'll keep up with nice weather through Halloween. Once November hits it's ok by me to snow.

We are enjoying a nice conference weekend. Between sessions today we had pancakes, bacon, raisin toast, and orange juice. We are pretty big fans of breakfast all day long. Last night some girls came over during priesthood and we watched the Phantom of the Opera and had delicious ice cream and chocolate pudding parfay's. The guys came after and we played some Wii, but they were much more excited when we pulled out Super Nintendo and Street Fighter 2, that was the big hit of the night.

The end.