Cathy's Blog

On the cable car

Originally uploaded by swenton

A couple weekends ago, I traveled down to San Francisco with my Seattle girls and my best friends from college and Kevin’s sister also joined us from the east coast. We spent the long weekend exploring the wines and wineries of Napa on our own private tour and eating our way through the city.

I also brought my new Panasonic DMC-ZS1 digital camera which I took this amazing photo with. I had always been a Canon PowerShot girl until our 3 year old Canon SD300 just wasn’t cutting it any more. My Dad bought the same Panasonic camera (a model older) a year ago for my mom and her pictures have always just been amazing to look at. I decided the ZS1 would be perfect because it fulfilled the 2 most important must haves of mine:

1. Amazing zoom
2. Easy to travel with

And after this trip, I have proved both to be true. I’d definitely recommend this camera to anyone who is looking for those things. Anyway, thanks to everyone who came out to San Francisco and made the weekend so much fun and memorable! I’m glad I could capture the moments with my new camera!

It’s funny. All you East coasters think it rains all the time here in Seattle. This includes my mom, whom after 3 years of me living here also still thinks it rains all the time. Well here’s my proof. It seems you guys are experiencing some rain today. Oh look though! It’s 79 degrees here now and not a cloud in the sky. I won’t lie either, it’s been this nice out since about the end of May. At one point, we even experienced 29 straight beautiful days without rain. So the next time someone tells you, “why would you want to move to/visit Seattle? Doesn’t it rain all the time there?”…tell them Seattle is the West Coast’s little secret!

I recently compiled a list of restaurants, breweries, brewpubs, and good beer reads that I follow on Twitter.
http://cathy.swenton.com/wa-beer-tweets/

You can also find a list of my favorite breweries and brewpubs that I’ve reviewed on Yelp. One of them might even have been featured in the Yelp Weekly newsletter for Seattle (just throwing that out there)!

Best WA Breweries/Brewpubs
Where to find the best beer in Washington (in my opinion)!
http://www.yelp.com/list/best-wa-breweries-brewpubs-seattle

Fantastic Seattle Beer Bars
If you love your beer, these places are a MUST visit! They may not brew their own beer, but they sure know how to keep the best beer on tap!
http://www.yelp.com/list/fantastic-seattle-beer-bars-seattle

WABL Favorites
Collect ‘em all (the stamps that is)…the best Washington Association of Beer Lover’s destinations!
http://www.yelp.com/list/wabl-favorites-seattle

Washington NU Alumni, originally uploaded by swenton.

Last night, we welcomed the newest graduates from Northeastern University to the Northwest! We held the event at Black Raven Brewing which recently opened up in the Redmond, WA area.

The turnout was 15 alumni and 2 guests of the alumni. I would like to thank everyone who came out for the event to welcome our recent grads! I will be honest; it was really cool to have my sister there too!

Check out photos from the event and brewery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swenton/sets/72157621059788985/

Even though Kevin and I have been engaged for almost 1 year and 10 months, we finally submitted our engagement announcement to Kevin’s hometown newspaper. Check it out!

http://www.enterprisenews.com/lifestyle/celebrations/x413663177/MISS-SWENTON-and-MR-SULLIVAN