Back in College Station

Here is my fancy set up in college station! It works, especially considering how little time I spend there.

Pressure cooker

We used our new multi cooker Sunday to make brown rice in 15 minutes! Pretty cool so far and the book has lots of neat-sounding recipes.

Salt Lick

Kyle and I headed back to the Salt Lick Sunday with Kelly, a graduate student in my group at TAMU, and Net, a student who was visiting TAMU because he's interested in doing his PhD there. We enjoyed the nicer weather than usual, some pumpkin beer, and (lots of) good food.

Maple Pass Loop

Here are pictures from the hike on the last day of the mini moon. On our way back from Winthrop, we stopped at Rainy Pass to do the Maple Pass Loop clockwise, heading out first toward Rainy Lake. This is a classic hike and it was a beautiful day!

Maple Pass

Cool front

A cool front came through the area yesterday, which made for slightly lower highs (in the 90s!) and also the lows dipped into the 60s, which is very exciting. It is so exciting that Kristina and Dave had a "cool front" party at their very nice home last night to celebrate, and Kyle and I went for a respectable run this morning! Usually I weather-weenie out of long runs (Kyle does them sometimes on his own) but today we did 8 miles! We made it all the way to Town Lake, which seems like green Lake in Seattle, and ran back through downtown and campus.

The Gingerman

After the movie, we went to the Gingerman with Alec and Hadar. This was Nicholas' favorite bar in college.

Sleepwalk with Me

Kyle and I went to a movie at a really neat artsy movie theater, the Violet Crown Theater. We saw Sleepwalk With Me, which was a good movie! I really liked the theater set up itself, which sells actually tasty food and drinks.