Just for the fun of it....

Cooking!

Totally went to an amazing bulk and fresh produce store yesterday. We have veggies and food for miles. This place is our new mecca: The Good Apple.

Thank you Cary and Jimmy for making this possible!

Now I can cook

And cook I shall

Been a busy week!

Also, Amanda hit culinary gold last night. We were enjoying some barbeque ribs at Uncle Breck and Aunt Sharon's last night when Amanda suggested adding cinnamon to our ribs out of the blue. It was actually quite delicious, I'm guessing this was since it was a molasses-based BBQ sauce. The whole meal was splendid and we are now refreshed, showered and laundried! Ah the life of dirty hippies on the road...

So grocery shopping today and developing our own cardio workout due to the absence of a certain Jimmy Freer (snowboarding today...lucky bastard)

So as you can see, life has settled down a bit into more of a rhythm and we are finding that while every day is an adventure, it often exhausts us too much to post about it!

Happy V-Day

Jimmy and Casey are hosting a Doctor themed party tonight. We, lacking costumes, will simply be bringing some Doctor-themed booze...

Last night hung out with Amanda's friend, John Keating. Wonderful fellow and we had a great time. Went out to a restaurant where you order and pay for your food and then they give it to you...raw.
 You then take your food (in our case raw chicken in ziplocs) out to the huge grill out back and cook your own sandwich. It was awesome! Definitely want to go back and grill up my own dinner while playing sand volleyball (they have two courts) or billards upstairs in their "lounge."

Tomorrow is "Recovery and Laundry Day." Lots of wet clothes to clean and gotta freshen up our garb before another weekend of faire. No fungus-laced bodysuits for this faire! I think the next Kickstarter that needs to happen is "buy the Fantastikals a second bodysuit." It'll probably get funded in 3 hours....by Fantastikals...

First Day!!!

Also, Whitney Houston died today apparently. That's a shame...

Now we're gonna eat quite a bit (mostly meat) and continue to curse James Freer for his strenuous, but ever so effective, workout regime. Yesterday's 20 solid minutes of 8 pushups (Amanda did Mountain Climbers instead for a more cardio workout), 12 lunges, 8 let-me-ups (pull ups from a situp position, requires benches) really kicked our collective asses. But we're feeling results already and this beats the hell out of not working out. Even if it REALLY doesn't feel like it right now.

Settling in

Well, jimmy and Casey have arrived! They are actually three doors down from us! We had drinks last night and I am starting a character for an RPG night!

In other news, I re-repaired the leak on the roof and we are working diligently on a replacement refrigerator. Amanda made a pretty garland for herself, picture below.

Jimmy is starting us on a new workout regime, pretty intense. Seven and a half minute sessions of each exercise. We do them in a pyramid ladder: do one, rest one, do two, rest two and up and then at your peak, go back down the pyramid! Upper body is SORE and more to come tomorrow...

Overall we are acclimating well. Even got our AC on (can you believe that?) and making sure we stay sunscreened and protected.

Video update soon with next coffee-shop post!

Getting settled in

All is going well, despite the world's best efforts sometimes :)

We are now better at knowing Appa inside and out. We learn new things every day and its very exciting! Even set up some instruments and made a bit of music (learned Long Train Running and Mrs. Robinson for starters). Hopefully we can jam with some neighbors.

Cooking even works great. Been making some great dishes and practicing Japanese during meal times.

Hardest part is to come to grips that each day is ours to plan. We get tons done but it still feels like a vacation. We worked out twice today and it was awesome! Even talked to the entertainment director and she is very interested in TSP. Gonna meet with her after President's Day, fingers crossed on that one.

Here's a pic of the interior :)