Last month Daryl and I went on our honeymoon – to Iceland! It was so incredible. Definitely a dream trip. We’re working on a series of posts about our trip, but here’s some photos!
Adventures: Iceland
Adventures: Backcountry at Blewett Pass
A week after Sparkle Fairy closed, I started tech for We Will Not Be Silent at Taproot Theatre. I had St. Patrick’s Day off from rehearsal, so we took advantage and hit the snow.
We met Danielle at the Bellevue Park n Ride, then headed to Blewett Pass, about 2 hours east of Seattle. We got to the parking lot, watched a snowmobile fall off a truck ramp, then got our gear together to head up.
There was a couple with a dog we met up with from time to time on our way up. Riley and their pup loved running and playing in the snow together!
We skied up to just below Diamond Head before taking a break and heading down. It was so beautiful!
Riley always steals first descent lines and loves to race Daryl down the mountain. He’s such a great deg.
This trip was definitely Type 2 Fun for me. I struggled on the last bit going up, with snow sticking to my skins, leaving me unable to find purchase on a steep section in the trees. I was pretty miserable for a while. Once we started heading down, and especially once we got to mellow terrain lower down, I started having fun again. Never a bad day on skis – but this was definitely not immediate fun.
Today’s adventure took place on land stolen from the Yakama and Wenatchi.
Adventures: Snoqualmie Night Skiing
In February I stage managed Sparkle Fairy’s School for Formerly Vile Villains at SecondStory Rep. I had matinees, which opened up evenings for us to ski at Snoqualmie Pass. I was working in Redmond, so Daryl and I would meet at the Bellevue Park n Ride, then head up the hill.
We first went night skiing on February 23rd and the snow was better than we expected. Not super icy, some powder pockets hiding on the edges. We had a blast!
Because we had such a great time, we decided to go again on March 4th. The snow was icy and it was windy. We skied three runs, then stopped at the bar to get a beer and some food. Since we only paid $25 for our tickets, we decided less than $10 a run was good enough for us and decided to call it a night.
This Seattle classic is conveniently located between most adventures and our house. Unloading the vehicle and taking a shower is always best done after two plain cheeseburgers and a strawberry shake.
Today’s adventure took place on land stolen from the Duwamish, Tulalip, and Puget Sound Salish.
Adventures: February Hike to Source Lake
Back in February Daryl, Riley, and I took a snowy hike out to Source Lake.
We passed a couple groups: two families closer to the trailhead, a group of four about halfway in, and a couple with skis. It was so peaceful out. I love how quiet hiking in the snow is.
Waiting to May to write a post about a hike in February is not ideal. I didn’t take any notes about the hike, so all those mental notes I made have vanished.
My very favorite winter hike beer.
We saw a parent and kid skiing down to the lake. It was fun to watch them pick their lines down.
I love hiking with our little family. <3
Today’s adventure took place on land stolen from the Snoqualmie, Tulalip, Duwamish, and Puget Sound Salish.
Adventures: Ski-N The New Year – Blewett Pass
After a three year hiatus, Daryl and I revived our tradition of Ski-N The New Year™, this time with Daryl’s brother Mike.
(Previous Ski-N The New Year™ trips: Mt. Hood Meadows 2010, Mt. St. Helens 2011, Lost Trail 2012, Mt. St. Helens 2013 and 2014)
We tossed around a lot of ideas for our NYE trip: Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Baker, Steven’s Pass. Unfortunately, the avalanche danger was really high and the snow was really unstable all over the Cascades, so we opted for much tamer terrain: Blewett Pass.
Since Daryl and Mike planned on skipulk-ing gear in, we of course decided to go big with food. I prepped bibimbap (my favorite camping meal) (though admittedly it does take too many steps to really be an efficient camping meal) for dinner and veggies for a morning scramble.
One major upside to moving 19 times is my ability to tetris a lot of things into not a lot of space – all of our food fit into The Boss, including ice packs!
We got to the Sno-Park around 2:30pm and snagged the very last spot in the lot (lots of families sledding and snow mobilers). After spending a record short amount of time at the 4Runner, we got on our skis and started heading up hill.
We skied up the road for about an hour before popping into the woods and finding a campsite on a saddle in the woods. After dropping our stuff at camp, we skinned up to the lower of the two summits for sunset.
When we got back to camp, the guys started collecting firewood (Riley helped) while I stomped down the snow for our tent. After camp was set and the fire started, I got down to [the] business of dranking vodka and making dinner.
The conditions were definitely not ideal for skiing, so we didn’t do any touring in the morning like we had hoped.
After packing up camp and navigating how to get the sleds back down to the road on the icy, crunchy snow we got into our skis and started heading back to the car. We skied the road the whole way down, passing two groups on snow shoes heading up.
As the year turned from 2018 to 2019 I declared my intention for the year: more adventures. There’s a lot of other things I want for the year, but they pretty much all circle back to More Adventures.
Today’s adventure took place on land stolen from the Yakama and Wenatchi.
Year in Review 2018
January
- 10 – Get married at Seattle City Hall on our 9th anniversary
- 14 – Wedding Day at McMenamins Edgefield!
- 16 – Start teaching ballet at UW Rec Center
- 29 – Wizard of Oz at Nathan Hale High School rehearsals start
- 30 – Get drinks with Kayleigh, a coworker of Daryl’s from Sacramento
February
- 8 – Swan Lake at Pacific Northwest Ballet
- 10 – Hike Little Si
- 12 – Sell Sue Ann, my 1991 Subaru Legacy with 312,619 miles. I bought her in 2008 for $2000 (with insurance money from when Rosie was totaled) and sold her in 2018 for $900. Not bad!
- 28 – Bought new skis with money from selling Sue Ann!
March
- 3 – Jessie and Darren’s wedding! It was so wonderful for us to get to spend time with Arina, Emily, Jesus, and Frank – unlike when we saw them in January at our wedding.
- 4 – Snoqualmie Pass was closed and we got turned back to Ellensburg. In all the years I’ve been traveling over the pass, I have never been turned around before!
- 7 – Hamilton! I still can’t believe we got to see it!
- 13 – Tech Rehearsals for Crowns at Taproot Theatre start
- 18 – Clare has a 12 hour layover in Seattle!
- 23 – Crowns opens
- 26 – Finish buying my new ski set up: ski boots, bindings, and ski crampons
- 29 – Cascade Grotto Pub Night at Floating Bridge Brewing
- 30 – Drive to Astoria. Drinks with Tammy!
- 31 – Mama and I drive to Roseburg for my Aunt Karen’s Celebration of Life.
April
- 10 – Danielle and Greg took us out to Stateside as a wedding present. So good!
- 22 – Daryl, Johnny, Danielle, and I catch the last day at Steven’s Pass for their Pond Skim. The first day on my new skis!
May
- 3 – Wizard of Oz opens
- 5 – Vertical practice for the Grotto at Ravenna Bridge
- 6 – Daryl and I catch closing weekend of Mt. Hood Meadows with Chandler
- 12-13 – North Cascades Recon trip
- 19-20 – North Cascades ski trip
- 22 – Sub as LBO for Lady Windermere’s Fan at Taproot Theatre
- 26-28 – Eugene with the Greaser-McDaniel Clan
June
- 1 – We moved into our new place! Riley gets a yard!
- 4 – Daryl’s birthday!
- 8-11 – Papoose Cave with 19 people from 6 grottos!
- 12-15 – I got to be the Tech Advisor for the Center School’s student written play festival with Seattle Public Theater
- 24 – June Birth Month Ski Trip: Chinook Pass
- 27 – My 31st Birthday! We saw West Side Story on the big screen!
- 30 – We got to spend the day with Mike, Saville, and the kids at the Pacific Science Center. I love our family.
July
- 7-8 – Astoria Weekend with Sydoney! We got coffee at 3 Cups, lunch at T. Pauls, coffee at Astoria Coffee House, climbed to the top of the Column, snagged tickets to a “Sneek” Peek of Shanghaied in Astoria, then we camped at the Saddle Mountain trail head and summited the next day. Talk about a perfect weekend!
- 9-12 – I spent the week as Technical Director and Lighting Designer for SPT’s summer camp production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
- 14-15 – McIver Float with the Beechaus!
- 20-Aug 5 – Montana
- 21-22 – Camp with Tom and his kids at Benchmark
- 23-24 – Benchmark. Float the creek between the campground and the airport
- 25-27 – Scapegoat
- 30-Aug 3 – NSS Convention
August
- 4 – Mike’s birthday float. We floated the confluence of the Blackfoot and the Clark Fork rivers!
- 7-10 – Lighting Designer for Charlotte’s Web at Taproot’s Summer Acting Studio
- 11 – Jack White concert with the Beechaus
- 16 – Skype date with Emily and Arina!
- 17 – HanaSara was in town for the shortest amount of time, but I managed to steal her for breakfast
- 19 – Becky and I had planned on going hiking, but smokey skies are gross. Brunch instead!
- 25-26 – Clear Lake with the Beechaus. The lake was practically gone and it was chilly, but we all had so much fun. Daryl and I got to be in charge of breakfast!
- 26 – On the way home from Clear Lake we stopped by Spencer’s brewery, 54’40’
- 27 – LBO for Sandbox Radio Live at SPT
September
- 14-16 – 56 hours in New York City!
- 15 – I got brunch with Mark, an online friend from the days of sondheim.com message boards in high school. Then I got drinks with my high school friends Temple and Jess. And to top the day off, I had dinner with so many UM friends: Emily, Ellie, Clare, and Christopher!
- 16 – Daryl and I got to spend the day wandering around the city!
- 27 – We saw Program B of the Jerome Robbins Festival at PNB (including The Concert, a ballet I’ve wanted to see for years). It was so good!
- 29 – Program B was so good that we got tickets to see Program A too!
October
- 1 – Riley’s 2nd birthday!
- 11 – We saw the MountainFilm World Tour at the Mountaineers tonight. Lots go great films and a lot of stoke to get outside.
- 15 – Rehearsals for Taproot Theatre Christmas Touring shows start.
- 20-21 – Dynamited Cave trip with Cascade Grotto!
- 27-28 – I made a trip home to see my parents and Grandma. We went through family photos and I learned more about our history here in Seattle.
November
- 3 – Date night at the Showbox to see Lil’ Smokies!
- 10-11 – I5 Super Awesome Friends weekend in Hood River! We visited the Western Antique Automobile and Airplane Museum – it is AWESOME!
- 19 – Rehearsals start for A Charlie Brown Christmas at Taproot
- 30 – A Charlie Brown Christmas opens
December
- 6 – Banff Mountain Film Festival at Benaroya Hall
- 8 – Cascade Grotto Holidays Party!
- 10-12 – LD The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe for Taproot Acting Studio
- 14 – Betsey got new boots (Cooper CS5s)
- 16 – After months of trying to have a work get together, we finally have a Greenwood Diva holiday party
- 20 – The Nutcracker at PNB
- 24-25 – We spend Christmas in Astoria. Christmas Eve at my parents with my Grandma and cousin, then Christmas Day at our favorite beach.
- 31-Jan 1 – Ski-N The New Year with Mike at Blewett Pass
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december 31, 2018
2018 was the best year, but I worked too much and didn’t get in the outdoors as often as I wanted.
My goal for 2019 is More Adventures.
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december 24, 2018
Riley had fun with the wrapping paper – and the laser pointer!
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december 25, 2018
My favorite place to spend Christmas.
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december 26, 2018
My third Taproot poster!
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december 27, 2018
A Charlie Brown Christmas Run Crew Family Photo
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december 28, 2018
I love when my husband makes us dinner.
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december 29, 2018
Movie night with my favorite boys.
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december 30, 2018
At the wedding we got 16lbs of coffee. Today we opened the last mason jar. Still fresh and delicious!
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december 17, 2018
Rosettas for days.
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december 18, 2018
Oh you.
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december 19, 2018
Whole Grain Pasta & Beef Ragu with Brussels Sprouts
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december 20, 2018
At the ballet with my love!
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december 21, 2018
Pretty little mocha.
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december 22, 2018
Today we did Secret Santa at the show and Daryl hunted us a Christmas tree!
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december 23, 2018
My favorite wedding craft.
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december 10, 2018
The Knitting Lighting Designer.
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december 11,2018
New drink specials!
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december 12, 2018
Today, after years of needing new pj pants but refusing to give them up because they had pockets, I finally replaced my fleece reindeer pants with polar bear pants – with pockets! (But only because they’re men’s. Smash the patriarchy.)
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december 13, 2018
Thankful for this cuddle pup.
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december 14, 2018
My favorite salad.
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december 15, 2018
Have a good long weekend off, gang!
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december 16, 2018
Watering day.