Matt happily accepted a job with Mozilla in December 2010 and we hauled buns to California!

Some of us were more excited than others

Stoic face

Whooohoo! And the last of the snow we'd see for a long time!

And then there was the sea.

We found an apartment...

...and moved in!

Then we lived happily ever after!

It's so BIG

Matt’s professor and good friend moved to Seattle with his partner, who is one of my good friends, so we packed our bags and dropped in for a visit!  As Seattle tends to do it was beautiful and sunny, wooing us in with perfect weather.

We enjoyed a game of Smash Putt in an old warehouse, took the ferry to Bainbridge Island where I bought a lot of yarn, and we walked all over the city enjoying yummy coffee not from Starbucks!  My favorite part was visiting the Fremont Troll, who was featured in a couple of the fiction books I had been reading at the time.

Smash Putt!

Ferry ride back from Bainbridge

Fremont Troll

Wall of Gum

Walking to coffee or food or art or coffee

A rousing game of hide in seek at the Olympic Sculpture Park

We made another trip to see my aunt and uncle in Asbury and then drove from there to Long Beach Island for more beach time!  I wanted to show Matt where my family used to vacation when I was a kid.  We rode the Ferris wheel, Matt won a stuffed cow out of the claw machine, and I trounced him at miniature golf.  Good times!

Family time!

Beach Haven

I love the beach!

Mini golf madness

Winning games!

On the hunt for sea glass