ALL the way back on August 2, Tim and I tried out a new church and then took a tour of the Kit.sap peninsula's Par.ade of Homes.
About the church:
The church has a pretty "progressive/contemporary" message and we are totally drawn to the youthfulness of the community (i.e. we are NOT the youngest couple there!). The church is very large, with three services, the latter two are accompanied by a praise band instead of the traditional organ/hymn combo. We're going to try it for awhile and oddly enough, they will get an interim pastor starting in September (just like A-town!). Their pastor of 20+ years up and quit about a month ago. We luckily had the chance to see him preach today, it was a very good sermon, but he'll only be around for two more weeks before he moves to Costa Rica.
The Parad.e of Hom.es:
There were six homes open to the public in the county, ranging as far north as Port Ludlow, to as far south as Gig Harbor. We made it to all but one of those homes (we skipped the Port Ludlow because of distance). The best parts were the views from each of the homes. The majority of the places were owned and submitted by the contracting companies after the owners had already moved in, so it was kind of awkward browsing homes where it's intrusive to look at closets and what-not. I'm including a few pictures of our favorites.
Our favorite house:
This was in Poulsbo, right on Hood Canal. This was probably the most well-prepared for touring, but because of that we couldn't see quite a bit of it. There was an entire second living space behind a secret door they had roped off! :-( But this was the closest to a "Str.eet of D.ream.s" home in the group.
Our favorite view:
We took about a million pictures and none of them did the view from this second house justice! This was in Seabeck, also right on the Canal. The contractor told us that there had been a fire the day before across the water and so it was a bit hazier than usual...obviously that contributed to picture quality. This land is not yet developed, but they are splitting it into 5 acre parcels at about $350,000 a piece. Very tempting (if that wasn't totally out of our budget at the moment and it wasn't WAY out in the boondocks)!
The house from the road (a.k.a. the windows facing the amazing view).
Finally, Tim's favorite based on sustainability:
This was a "green" house. It had a lot of asian influence and it was fun to tour. In case you're not aware, Tim is borderline obsessed with building a green house. :-)
That was our Kitsap adventure. I will try to get this up-to-date this week, so I'm not posting about things from waaaayyyy back in the day! :-)
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