A Cocktail, Food, Photography and Travel Blog
A few month back we stumbled on an interesting gallery space. We weren’t sure what it was but we saw a bunch of chefs in sitting around a table and the door was open so naturally, we let ourselves in. Greeted by Chef Maxime Bilet who showed us around his space and introduced us to […] Read more…
How did we celebrate Valentine’s Week? With a trip to one of Seattle’s finest hospitals, of course. What did you do? Something romantic I’m sure. We’ve just past the 5 month mark in our new town, so I guess it’s a fine time to kick the tires of Seattle’s medical system. As Bobby so eloquently […] Read more…
February 9th brought us a special treat in Seattle. Now yes there is plenty of snow just an hour east, north, even west and south of Seattle. But in Seattle it is rare to get more than an inch. With reports of a massive snow storm moving up from Portland we were gazing out the […] Read more…
What an exciting time to move to Seattle! The Seahawks won the Super Bowl! It was really fun getting into the games and being a part of all the fan fair. I never really liked watching sports at all, but I also never knew what it was like to live in a city that had […] Read more…
We drove just 2 hours away from the grey and overcast weather in Seattle, and when we arrived at Crystal Mountain there was nothing but blue skies. We took the Mount Rainier Gondola up the side of the mountain to eat lunch at the Summit House restaurant. We watched people ski down the slopes as […] Read more…
We are so excited that Kyle decided to visit us in Seattle. Okay, to be truthful, he was here for work and we only got to spend about 16 hours with him total, but we’re SO happy to see him. We gave him a super condensed tour of our the city. Since he had already […] Read more…
We’ve lived in Seattle for 4 months now, so to celebrate I made breakfast tacos for the first time. When I was in San Antonio for Christmas, I purchased 3 dozen uncooked homemade tortillas from La Fogata restaurant. I never realized that for me, breakfast tacos are comfort food, but they have to be made […] Read more…
Back in Seattle, we celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary in culinary style at Canlis restaurant. We hung out, relaxed and recharged. We were itching for some snow so we took Paisley to a snow park in Snowqualmie. The slopes aren’t open yet due to lack of snow fall, but we were able to find enough for a […] Read more…
December seemed to fly by this year! Whoa! We took a super quick trip back to Texas to celebrate Christmas with the family, catch up with some of our besties and stuff our faces with tex-mex and barbecue. Bobby turned 32 and his nephew, Hector turned 1! Bobby and Baby Hector on their way to […] Read more…
Social media pal and fellow Nikon shooter Louie Preciado came to Seattle to hang out with photographer friend Kimberly Scott. We had all met a few years back while working on a 48 Hour Film project in San Antonio. I picked up Louie on a Saturday morning and we set off to hit as much […] Read more…
A big thanks to Scott and Shannon Austin for the Goode Company Pecan Pie! It the best Pecan Pie anywhere. Period. And, it’s nice to have a little taste of Texas as we celebrate our first Thanksgiving in Seattle. Read more…
We hope you all had a very wonderful Thanksgiving filled with happiness and pie! We went a little non-traditional this year and it was a nice, stress-free day. We celebrated Thanksgiving as “orphans” (what transplants with no family in the area call themselves) by dining out at a restaurant on the Pier 70, called Aqua. […] Read more…
It’s been almost a month since our last post. Sorry. We got a little busy for a while. Work is picking up for both of us, we’ve been trying new restaurants (there’s so many!), finding new grocery stores (nothing we like as much as H-E-B Central Market), visiting new parks and hanging out with friends. […] Read more…
Found this at the neighborhood drugstore, Bartell Drugs. Read more…
I went to Minneapolis for 3 days of training. it wasn’t as cold as I thought it would be even thought it was forecasted to snow. This is the temperature displayed at the airport once I got to Minneapolis. Notice Tuesday’s snow flakes! I was pretty disappointed it never snowed. While I was there, I […] Read more…
We are now six weeks into the Seattleite life. The weather has gotten a little cooler and the leaves are turning into gorgeous yellows, oranges and reds. We are breaking out the sweaters and jackets. We are really enjoying having a fall season. Friday we went to a fun foodie event at the Pike […] Read more…
We visited a pumpkin patch with our friends Christine and Andy this weekend and ended up coming home with a wheelbarrow full of gourds (for only $33!). Christine and Andy hosted a pumpkin carving party. This is Angela’s modern carving interpretation. These are all our pumpkins with Bentley dressed as a caterpillar for scale. Read more…
We’ve been living in Seattle for a month now. We’ve been out and about seeing as much as we can, soaking up the city (which is why we’re just getting around to hanging photos). We are loving it up here, but we really miss everyone back home. Since we’re rounding out a month in our […] Read more…
We’ve been living in Seattle for 3 weeks now. The weather has been nothing but beautiful, but the first day of Fall brought the cold and the rain. It’s been between 50-60 degrees everyday. Some days have been rainy but others have been a monsoon—well for Seattle—but a normal rainy day for San Antonio (when […] Read more…