Ashton Retreat at Camp Casey

This weekend was our hall retreat and we took a drive to Camp Casey on Whidbey Island for some hall bonding...

haley, me, kelsey, and emilie on the ferry over the sound.

It was a beautiful day and we were camping in barracks right on the puget sound. It was gorgeous!

We were so hungry after driving all through lunch.

Deer were running all around camp - coming within just a few feet of people!

getting a little rest during the scavenger hunt.

some of my floor =D

Initiation

Freshman initiation was a really fun day - we had a great time bonding as a floor all day. we were woken up at 6:30 and taken to the beach for a time of sophomore advice and prayer - writing our fears on rocks and throwing them into the water. Then we had a pancake breakfast in our lounge courtesy of the sophomores.... which then ended up in the passing out of 4th east ashton diapers for us to wear all day. later that night we were kidnapped, blindfolded by the sophomores, and taken to Bubble Tea for some awesome tapioca drinks =D - we really got off easy for our initiation!

If we weren't wearing it all day we had to wear it on our heads - it was interesting to say the least but we embraced them!

Rockin the "Dipes" with Haley and Alyssa

Jessica at Fusion

Floormates at fusion! me, breanne, christina, lauren, amanda, and rachel!

being kidnapped and blindfolded

Bubble Tea- we took over at 11:30 at night - any visitors i have will need to visit here =D its delicious

Rainboots =D

Some friends and I took the bus downtown for dinner and a little shopping and some cheesecake from cheesecake factory to bring back to watch a girlie movie! We decided since it was raining hard we would rock our rainboots =D - thanks alice - they really come in use here! I'm a giant compared to my roomate! Then we got hair color and colored my hair .... check it out =D (it's really not much darker)

My Lovely Campus

My favorite building

Squirrels Everywhere

Just a little glimpse of campus =D

A walk through Queen Anne

So yesterday Alyssa and I went on a little visit to Queen Anne hill for some coffee and some groceries... Queen Anne is the awesome town that we live in - very ritzy and everything is so cute! I love it and there is so much awesome culture here I really enjoy it so I decided to take some abstract photos. here ya go - hope you enjoy them! (I do admit there was some obvious photo editing done to the colors because they would have been a little lame without it)

More to Life

our futon finally put together!

my side of the room. i think its pretty awesome.

our awesome view from the canal from the balcony. probably where many of the phone calls with you guys from back home are occurring =]

walking over the canal to Fremont.

Moving to my new home.

move in day with alyssa my roomate =D

this is the beautiful city i now live in!

this is how our room began on day one. 

the canal right next to my school

the view from my dorm window! I'd say I'm pretty lucky to see this everyday!

so i made this blog to keep everyone back at home up to date a little bit on what's gong on in my life and to show you the most awesome city that i am so privileged to now live in - maybe to entice someone to visit me =D haha. hope you enjoy what you see!