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Vox Hunt: Blog Action Day - Good For The Environment

Show us something that's good for the environment.

My yogurt.  It says:

In the near future, we will be removing the plastic lids from our yogurt cups.  This environmentally-friendly act will keep over 800,000 pounds of extra plastic from entering our ecosystem each and every year!

Vox hunt

The Columbian

The new building for the newspaper is almost done now and looking super nice.

Columbian

Leaves

On a walk around Esther Short Park, there were beautiful leaves to step on.

Leaves

Fancy ice cream

We went to a new ice cream parlor on Friday night after dinner, Ice Cream Renaissance (on yelp).  We'd seen this when we visited the uptown village section of Vancouver a few weeks back and knew we'd have to visit.

They actually had waters that took your order and so it was a fancy way to have ice cream, but still not too expensive.  We tried the Officer's Row, a small sampler dish of 5 scoops.  Honey Vanilla, Cream de Minted, Pumpkin Pie, Peanut Butter, and Cookie Dough Vinci.  3 of those were specialty flavors that they don't always offer.  My favorite was the special Pumpkin Pie, but the Honey Vanilla was also very good. 

Next time, I think we'll have to get a fancy sundae, there are a ton of options (including one called Mt. St. Helens, with raspberry lava on top!).  We have to take E's family here next time they visit!

chalkboard specials

officer's row

The restaurant itself is done up with cool decorations, like info about Donatello all over our table (under glass).  If I wasn't enjoying my ice cream so much, I probably would have learned more except for the conversation with E about my confusion over which renaissance people were Turtles ;)

Above our seat in the alcove of the front of the restaurant was a cloudy sky, which I love, and a big star.

cloudy sky

Collecting

Found, a basket donated for the library stuff. Now i can work on putting them together tomorrow. :)

Collecting

Cooking magazines

I have a giant pile of cooking magazines, some not even opened. Trying to find some inspiration for this week's meal planning. I scavenged every pile of mags in the house looking for them. They are too nice of magazines to throw away!

Cooking magazines

Edited to add: these are all Reiman magazines: Cooking for 2 (my fav because it uses smaller portions without having to guess really how many servings to scale down to), Simple and Delicious (which used to be Quick Cooking, there are a bunch titled that in the pile too) and Taste of Home (which we don't currently get).  I didn't take the Real Simples out of the pile, even though those have recipes too.