First day of school in 7 years

So as most of you know, today was my first day of school in 7 years. I'm attending EVCC Everett Community College for a little bit, then hopefully transferring to a 4 year school to finish my degree in Criminal Justice. After not much sleep, and numerous cups of coffee, it was time... My first class is Intro to Criminal Justice. It's a hybrid class, so that means some of the class is online, and some is in class. We'll it turns out that the only online stuff is homework and tests, all of which can be open book. I showed up a little...or a lot early, and there was nobody in the class, I was a tad worried, but after a while people started showing up. We have a strict syllabus, which is nice because I know what all of my homework is, and tests are to give me plenty of time to work on it. No reason for me not to ace this class. The prof seems nice, she came into the room "jamming" to her Ipod. She was in a bad mood, so she spent the whole class showing us her Facebook, YouTube videos, and videos of movies...I hope she's in a bad mood more often. Next I got lost going to my second class which was Oceanography. Little did I know that this class is tied together with English 102. So its a 3 hour combo of lectures, discussions and labs with 2 teachers. Apparently we are also going on a weekend field trip the weekend after Easter. This class seems difficult. The tests (festivities as the prof calls them) are open note tests, I'm going to load those up as much as possible. That being said, If all my tests are open note and one being open book tests, the only class I really have to worry about is writing the papers for English. Parking is a mess on the campus, so with only having one car, I'll be looking into public transportation. I've already got my homework done for Wednesday and most my reading done, more than I've even done at HACC. The semester ends June 13th, and very shortly after I'll be taking Summer classes. I can safely say that I will never take a class again where the two are joined like this. What a pain not to mention confusion. I technically could have a lab tomorrow or Thursday, nobody can give me a clear answer, so I'll be at both. Thanks for all the love and support, I wouldn't be here right now if it weren't for all of you. I'll keep you guys posted as more comes up  

Bored

Hey everybody, hope all is well. Erica is at work and I'm a little bored, so what better time to write the next blog. No much is new out west. Erica has teamed up with a fellow coworker in a sales contest at work. Last I heard they are in first by a small margin of less than $500, Friday is the last day of the contest. Erica had to do a mascot appearance this weekend, I insisted on doing it for her so I wouldn't have to answer any questions about the Everett Aquasox. So above is me and a storm trooper from star wars, clearly I have the better costume. It was a great success, including a mascot dance off and a dance with radio disney. I have been working on getting everything ready for my upcoming adventure back to school. It is not easy coordinating everything from the west coast when everything else is on the east coast. Getting a copy of my transcript sent from one to the other was probably one of the hardest things I've ever had to encounter.

The weather has been somewhat nice out the past couple of days. Right now it's sunny, and not a cloud in the sky. We took a trip to check out a local disc golf course this past week. It's almost a putt-putt course for me, but great for Erica to fine tune her game. We are planning on doing a doubles tournament this summer if we can find one! I just ordered a new disc which is a new line of plastic from Innova, I'm really excited about that. Supposed to be lighter, and faster than any of their other plastics, we shall see.

Erica and I are also going to team up and do some beer brewing together. We have a computer program coming in the mail that will help us determine some good recipes to use and what not. We will be designing a label and come up with a catchy name.

Saturday the Buffalo Sabres were playing in Vancouver, originally we wanted to go to the game, but tickets were too expensive. So we put on all of our Sabres gear and went to a bar to watch them beat the Canucks. What a game. We were not very welcome with Vancouver being the home team around here. 

We miss everyone back home a ton and think about everyone all the time. Hope all is well. Can't wait to have some visitors

Decorated apartment, now accepting visitors

So this is it, the much anticipated moving fiasco story. As many of you are aware, this started in Hanover PA, when the moving truck showed up 11 hours later than what they had originally said. Erica and I made it easy on them, because all of our stuff was already in the garage (minus the bed,) all they had to do was to move it onto the truck. 3 weeks go by of sleeping on the floor and eating nothing but frozen meals (not as glamorous as it sounds,) and all we got was: "oh yeah, I'll have the driver call you tomorrow." No dice. Almost daily we had to call to check on the progress. Finally we have a date, Friday afternoon. Since Erica had to work, we requested that the driver calls us an hour before hand so she can leave work and make sure we're ready. Erica received a call from the driver at 4PM saying "I'm here and the truck won't fit in your complex". Ugh! The driver then demanded that we figure out a way to get our stuff from the truck and into our apartment (a.k.a. rent a u-haul and do it ourselves). The truck driver was EXTREMELY rude through the whole process even calling Greg to tell him we needed to hurry up, not to waste his time and informing us he had other customers waiting. Jerk. So from work, Erica reserved a U-Haul truck, left work early, picked Greg up and met the Driver in the parking lot of a Walmart just down the street. We weren't allowed to inspect any of the boxes or our furniture so Erica made sure to write a statement saying they were liable for anything that was broken. Did I mention that it is raining cats and dogs? Now that we finally had our belongings in our possession we picked up Chinese food and LOTS of beer for the long night ahead. We got everything up to our apartment in a timely manner only to realize that one of our couches wouldn't fit through the door. We were exhausted and decided to leave the couch in the hallway overnight until we could figure out what to do. Luckily we have some nice neighbors who helped us squeeze it in.
It was a pretty awful experience but we are glad to have all of our belongings! We are working on getting some money back from the moving company since they didn't really do anything to help us move. A few nasty phone calls and letters are in the works.
Now that everything is organized and decorated we are excited to invite people over and have visitors! We have been cooking and baking a ton to make up for all of the boring frozen meals. We made Sam Adams Tomato Curry Chicken which was amazing! Tonight is Chicken and Stuffing Bake.
That's all for the moving fiasco! We have plenty more fun stories to tell but we'll save that for another time! Love to all!

Greg Tebowing

Greg also wanted to make sure that everyone saw him "Tebow" at the Denver Airport

Our apartment take 2

Our apartment

Hey everybody, hope all is well. We had to break this up in 2 separate videos to showcase our new apartment. We are still waiting on our furniture which is getting pretty ridonculous. Everything is going well at Erica's work, she is possibly making her first sale tomorrow! fingers crossed. Her car is holding up well, I know you guys are still waiting in anticipation as to what it is, and she probably forgot, so ill remind her to take pictures tomorrow. Greg's doing well, He's been applying to department manager jobs at Lowe's (which at this point he's not real sure if he wants that or not,) He's also going through the process to be a mailman by the disc golf park (could be trouble.) He's gone through 2 assessments, and has scored a 81.8%, which means he's still in the running....c'mon!!! Greg also has a lot of time to catch up on Hanging and Words With Friends, so if you haven't already make sure to start a game with him. Things are going well here in Everett, We're taking full advantage of the workout room, the cabana (Greg,) and all the beautiful sights around the area. This weekend were thinking about heading to Seattle to do some tourist things, so keep an eye out for the next blog!

Hi Everyone!
We made a video of our apartment (sans furniture) but we can't seem to get it to upload so you'll have to wait to see the new digs, sorry!
Everything has been going well here. Erica finished her first week of work and is loving the new job. It's really different from the York Revolution but it is great to see and learn how different teams operate. Greg has been holding down the fort and helping to get the apartment ready for the arrival of our furniture...wish we knew when this was happening!
We have been car hunting for the past few days and finally purchased a car yesterday. We will post photos soon! We got a fantastic deal on the car, thanks to Greg's bargaining.
Today was the best weather we have had since we arrived. 60's, warm, sunny, not a cloud in the sky! It was beautiful! We took a trip down to Seattle to drop off our rental car and found ourselves stuck in the trip of a lifetime. We dropped off the car near the airport and had to take a cab to the train station. The cab took close to 40 minutes to arrive while we had to listen to "would you like to buy some peanut butter candy" from a bunch of annoying girl scouts outside of Safeway. The cab driver gave us quite the ride driving extremely fast, dangerous and crazy! We made it to the train station only to realize Amtrak put us on a bus and not a train.....it only gets better from here! A traumatic bus ride ensued! A very "interesting" woman, presumably on heroin, sat a few seats behind us and proceeded to tell the entire bus about her mental disorders, sperm donors, 6 reincarnations, her "cleavage shirt", and much MUCH more. Our bus driver was nice but had a large band aid across his forehead and sang to us the entire drive. It was quite an experience. Once we arrived in Everett we had to grab another cab to our apartment. The cab driver was really anxious to tell us about a new air deodorizer that he found and wanted to tell us all about. Needless to say our first trip into Seattle was "exciting"!
The weather the past few days has been amazing and we have really enjoyed the views. The mountain ranges are spectacular! We are already planning to do some hiking once it gets warmer. Tomorrow we are going to try out a local church and go play some disc golf- the weather looks sunny and warm again. There is so much to do here and we are excited to try it all.
I think that's all for now! We are having a blast but miss and love everyone back home! Now that we have a place and are getting grounded in Everett we can't wait to have visitors!

Traffic & Weather Update in Everett, WA

Pre-Flight Coverage

A new start!

Hi friends and family!
If you didn't know, Greg and I decided to embark on an adventure to Washington state. I got a job working for the Everett Aquasox, a single A minor league affiliate of the Seattle Mariners. Greg took the brave leap to leave Lowe's and is excited for the new opportunities that are ahead of him in Washington!
Everett, Washington is about 20 miles north of Seattle and is surrounded by beautiful scenery and is home to one of the largest public marinas in the United States. From what we have seen so far it is amazing! We  decided to start this blog to share our adventures! We hope you enjoy!
Love to all!