Monthly Archives: November 2008

Basement Before and After Pics

A little over a year ago we finished our basement. We had originally hoped that Kosei, our Japanese exchange student would have been able to stay down there, but the time schedule for construction is always underestimated. Britton and I have had various people stay with us since then in the basement bedroom, and since the last roommate just moved out, it made me think about all the work and money we put into it. It was definitely worth it, but it’s good to look back and remember.

Also, some people still haven’t seen it since it was finished (including Kosei, this one’s for you 🙂 !) We are planning on renting out this house when we move to Puerto Rico, but we are enjoying it while we are here. Also, maybe this will be motivation for Britton to finish the rental house basement *hint, hint*

 
At a concert with Kosei


Before


Fireplace Area After


Bathroom Before


Bathroom After


Downstairs Bedroom and Closet Before


Bedroom After


Looking from the Vents Toward the Utility Room Before


Slightly Different angle, soffets cover vents, looking from wetbar


Wetbar area, this is the same view to the bathroom behind it covered with drywall (4th picture)


Living Area- Where we watch movies, PBS and Britton plays video games 🙂

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Friends, Fun and Contra Dancing

Saturday was a fun day and night. Britton found out one of his long-time high school friends was going to be driving through Colorado from Texas and wanted to hang out. Shana asked me if I wanted to go Contra Dancing, which I had never even heard of before she told me about it, and so since Britton had company, I went with her. It was SO much fun. You get a little dizzy with all the twirling, spinning, swinging and so on, but it was awesome. I was sweating and laughing the whole time.

Contra is hard to describe. It is kind of like square dancing, except it is done in a long line and to what kind of sounds like Celtic music. It’s a little like those old Elizabethian movies where they move between each other and switch partners except people weren’t all that dressed up. There were way more women than men, so I think if Britton ever went with me, he’d be a hot commodity.

Cassie, Sunset and Chicken

Cassie, Sunset and Chicken

 Hangin’ w/ the Black Chicken before we left


Getting Ready to Join back in to the line going the other way


Some of the girls from work who went: Pam, Me, Kathy, Shana


All the Swinging to one side left my right hip sore

After Contra, Shana dropped me off at home but Britton and Sean weren’t there, so we (Shana and I) decided to go meet them at the bar. We hung out there and talked for a while-till about 2 in the morning, but then the time fell back because of Daylight Saving and it was only 1:30am when we got home. 🙂 It was a fun day.

 
Later that evening with Sean, Britton, Shana and me

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