Fall Festivities

New England Falls are always beautiful and my 2nd favorite time of year on the East coast. We've been enjoying our fall.
We got a special visit from Christian's cousin Paul and his wife. We had not seen them for 7 years so it was fun to reconnect. It is nice that Boston is a city where so many people come for work or pleasure so we get to see friends and family. We have another one of Christian's cousins coming to spend the weekend with us which should be fun.

I have always wanted to see a cranberry bog, so earlier this month we went to Edaville with some friends to check out the bogs.

The bogs were really pretty, and was interesting to see how things were done. However, I have to tell my fellow Bostonians this is probably an activity I would pass on (at this location anyhow.) It was advertised on the web as "The Annual Cranberry Festival" sponsored by Ocean Spray. We paid $12 a piece to this children's amusement park and saw this bog. There was nobody to explain about the bogging process; but luckily our friend Stuart had seen an episode on Dirty Jobs and was able to explain the process to us. We thought there would be cranberry products to purchase; nope there wasn't.The only thing Ocean Spray had to do with it was giving out free samples of cranberry juice. For me, it was a big of a let down. I do, however, know what a bog looks like before and after it is flooded. They really are a beautiful sight, just not worth the money or the drive.

Christian found a big ole caterpillar in the cranberries and Berkeley wanted to play with it.

We did take a train ride around the park. I thought they might explain the bogging process during the ride, but no, they just played children's songs instead.

Also this fall, we got our first snow storm. On October 16th to be exact. WHAT THE?????

In October we love all things pumpkin. Dressin' the kids up like one....

making my favorite cookies of all time; pumpkin chocolate chip....

and of coarse carving them.