Hello! It's been over a month since I posted anything - we have been so busy with moving into our new place, settling down and starting school that I haven't even had time to look at my photos, much less post them. But now I'm finally getting around to it. Here's our new house -

We love our roommates. We're quite an international house - here's the white board with the announcement for our most recent House Potluck, and everyone contributed a language - as you can see, we're a very multi-lingual house! In fact, most of the people in the house speak German, which is great for us!

The potluck was very lively and lots of fun. (Here we all are in the kitchen.)

So. Our big activities of the last month - first, there was the bachelorette party for my cousin, Karly, who got married on September 24th. It was in central Washington, a couple hours' drive from Seattle. The landscape there is really different from ours - it's dry and hilly.

Here's the cute little cabin we stayed in - it was very cozy and had beautiful scenery.

Here are my cousins Lisa and Karly (the bride) and Gillia, my sis.

Day of the wedding ... here is Gil (my sister) putting the finishing touches on one of the wedding cakes. My sisters were solely responsible for the 7 cheesecakes and they were absolutely AMAZING. Everyone was impressed with how they looked and how they tasted, too ...

Here's where they had the ceremony - it was really beautiful, with candles and everything.

Here's Gil realizing that one of the cakes had cracked in half during the course of the night. Don't worry, it all turned out okay and they tasted great!!

At the end of September we celebrated my birthday at Chance's family's house.

It was a "good luck" day - there was a gorgeous rainbow across the water.

Later the sky turned these amazing orange and blue colors - it was really a crazy weather day!

Earlier this month we went with our friends Jenn and Chris to Vancouver. Here we are in Stanley Park, a gorgeous green space with water views and ample frisbee-playing areas...

It's lovely to just walk along the shore and see the mountains and the skyline.

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There were also lots of Canada Geese. Go figure.

Vancouver has an amazing Chinatown. We love to go to this one certain shop and buy things, simply because the woman behind the counter is so pushy and it's fun to bargain with her. Chance decided to buy this strange rice-wrap - it was filled with bean paste and didn't taste very good (hence his face). :)

It wouldn't be a Vancouver trip without a visit to "Cupcakes" (guess what they sell?). Their cakes look amazing too!

We also checked out the library. It's gorgeous - built in this neo-roman-colloseum style ... Vancouver is really beautiful.

A couple of weekends ago I joined my family to celebrate my Grampa's 89th birthday (Gil helped blow out all those candles)! It was lots of fun to see my relatives, many of whom I haven't seen in a year ...

Last weekend we hung out with my parents. They took us to the Ballard Locks - one of Seattle's famous waterways.

The Locks were built in the 1920's, so they have really neat art-deco buildings. It was sunset and everything was very calm and pretty.

It has been quite the month.