Commencement Bay Boat Ride

Thomas and I found a groupon for a boat ride around Commencement Bay and couldn't pass up the ready made date. We decided to head to Shake Shake Shake, our new favorite burger place first so the rest of the time we could just enjoy the ride. That and I had not actually realized that we could BBQ on the boat. Oh well, less for us to carry. 

Cutest little place!

My favorite regular and sweet potato fries ever!

I have heard they have amazing milkshakes. I have yet to try them though.

So after dinner we headed down to the dock and jumped on board this little guy.

A bit of a bummer that you can't see Rainer to the left of the picture. Good ol' cloudy WA.

Love seeing Tacoma from a different point of view!

The "other" side of the mill.

Stadium High School.

I might have a small obsession with tug boats. Every time I see them out on the water it makes me smile.

Tacoma's own 2 ships.

The hill I drive every single day... And in the left corner you can see this hill Thomas runs 3 times a week! Crazy man!

The line of cars waiting for the ferry to Vashon Island.

The Narrows Bridge from Gig Harbor's view. Fun in spite of the yucky day.

Gig Harbor's little light house with Point Defiance in the background.

Gig Harbor humor.

 The cruise lasted for a few hours giving way to dusk and early evening. Created for some beautiful reflection pictures of downtown Tacoma.

Sweet little downtown Tacoma.

This guys is a fantastic date.

If you want an excuse to see Tacoma in a different light, this was a fantastic way. 

Seawillow Adventures was a fun, homey way and the owner often puts deals on Living Social or Groupon.

And of course I had fun taking tons of pictures. Because I always do.

Buying Hiatus 3 Month Update

December...

January....

February....

And now we are into March. We have successfully gone 3 full months without buying anything....

Except. 

I feel like there is always an except. 

Ours comes in the form of new food storage. I had really been wanting more glassware lately to swap out my plastic ware, but I am on this thing called a buying hiatus. So of course I can't buy anything.

Except....

I made up these rules that say I can switch things out that break.

And I feel as though switching out plastic (which really isn't amazing for you when it gets microwaved every day with lunches in it) for glass is a smart healthy move. And we didn't buy more then we already had.

Our very well used plastic ware. Clearly orange from spaghetti.

My new glass ware!!!

I bought a set of snap top glassware from Costco a few years ago and loved it. And then over the years I have bought a few lunch sized pieces of the non snap tops and realized that not only do they break, but they also are a lot harder to get off of frozen food.

So many different sizes!!!!

The Costco by my house has not carried these for quite some time now. So 2 weeks ago while Thomas and I were killing time before his flight to Vegas, we went to the Costco by the airport and low and behold... we found these. We also found that Ikea has individual ones perfect for lunches! I love this big pack because I needed larger sizes for general food storage, but yay! All different sizes!

So that is my rationalization. Yes I switched out 1 for 1. Yes it is for our health. And now that I have shared it with you, I don't feel guilty. :)

I still haven't bought anything else though! 

I am interested in what I am going to where to 2 weddings in the next few months. I might just have to borrow dresses from friends!

And finally, a friend of mine sent me a great article. This women decided to not buy her children anything new for a year. And in the middle of that year she became pregnant and give birth.

And she still managed to not buy anything. Well almost.

Check out her story here.

Inspiring.

West Tiger Mountain Trail 2 Hike - Seattle, WA

 I know it has been a while since I have posted, but mainly it was because we did a whole lot of nothing exciting in January. And then in February we were crazy busy! So I didn't have time to post! But here I am just a few weeks late. 2 weeks ago Thomas headed to Vegas for one of his best friend's bachelor party weekend. Meanwhile I decided to visit my sister up in the University District of Seattle. And we decided to go on a hike.

After looking at a few we decided to hike the Tiger Mountain Trail. We had both heard good things and we even looked up the info!

We were out the door and at the trail head at 9 am, which was awesome!

We took off and came to a fork in the road. A not very well marked fork in the road. And we took the road less traveled. The wrong road. 

 

We took West Tiger Mountain 3 instead of the Main Tiger Mountain. And we hiked and hiked and had a wonderful time. At one point we had a dog with us for about a mile. Eventually we met back up with the owner and handed him off. We met back up with her later and she kindly shared her map and distance with us. I don't know why I thought it was a loop. It was not and so at that point we ate a snack and headed back the way we came. 

After we took a few pictures.

Sisters!!!

My view the entire hike.

Loved spending time with Stevi and starting my training. But that explanation is for a whole other post. Crazy times up ahead for the Kucera household!