End of Summer - School Begins

Arielle and I flew back to Seattle at the beginning of August for her cousin, Jessica's wedding. The flights over were pretty uneventful and it was my first time really visiting Seattle for vacation and not work related. We rented a car and stayed with Arielle's aunt and uncle. The rental car was a Ford Fusion and was fun to drive compared to our old car. Seattle was a blast! We visited some of my WSU friends and had dinner with them at MOD pizza (my favorite), went to the first Starbucks and went through Pikes Place Market.

Arielle decorated cupcakes for the wedding and helped to make the s'mores party favors, I helped make some massive amounts of Asian coleslaw. The day of, we helped to set up all of the food and cupcakes. The wedding was really nice in an event center next to the beach. The weather was nice and sunny, which is a rarity for Seattle.

After Seattle we headed back with Arielle's family to Spokane. Arielle went and visited some old work friends, we spent time with both families and the Walkers threw us a party so that we could see the rest of the family and some other friends. I spent a good portion with Mo Money playing FIFA and visiting with his family. I stopped and started my bike before we headed back out to Ann Arbor. Overall it was a fun visit but it was only a few days.

The flight back was a mess with delayed airports, a crazy guy who kept turning off my air, and a huge thunderstorm in the mid-west. Once we landed a friend of Arielle's picked us up and drove us home. It was raining so hard during part of the drive that people were pulling off the freeway to wait for the rain to let up. I do love the mid-west storms!
As the summer came to an end we visited campus and figured out where our classes were going to be. I started my new program in Applied Economics and Arielle is just finishing her last semester. Arielle is still working in the lab finishing up the study. They have one baby still in the study.