Happy Halloween

The single's ward was having a stake conference so we went to a family ward instead. After, we had a picnic at the Mount Auburn Cemetery. It is so beautiful there! To increase the Halloween factor, we started watching the movie Hocus Pocus on Ashley's computer while eating. Then we explored the cemetery stopping at the lakes, churches, and climbing the Rapunzel tower. Very cool!

My driving skills were put to the test as I drove us around Boston to the Bunker Hill Monument, Beacon Hill, the Financial District, universities, Cheers, etc. Good stuff!

Last stop was to turn in the rental car and get some take-out to eat while finishing up Hocus Pocus. Happy Halloween!

Stained glass window in my bathroom stall.

Southbound Again to SALEM

An early morning start...but why? Apparently it only takes 8 hours to drive back down to Boston as opposed to 10 1/2 hours to get to PEI. Even driving the same roads. It's a mystery.

Speaking of mystery...Salem! We spent quite some time in the Witches village. Three haunted houses, a wax museum, witch's spell casting, candlelight night walk, a fabulous cheesy broccoli pasta dinner, and apple cinnamon dessert later, we had a happy Halloween celebration! Of course, as we weren't drunk, the haunted houses were definitely NOT scary. Utah ones are way better! Location does improve them significantly of course...

Prince Edward Island

Turns out I don't have the right cord for my camera anymore. I'll be taking my storage device to work to see if I can down load the pictures that weren't on my phone for later...

Road Trip

It stayed misty leaving Maine, with lots of crows flying along the side of the road. The colors were beautiful! Yes, we missed the peak time, but they were still colorful.

At the Canadian border, the patrolman made fun of Ashley for saying we were headed to Prince Edwards Island. He still let us across though...without a stamp in our passport!  :-(

Only a few more hours and then we made it to our hotel in Charlottetown. Dinner was at Maggie's, a homecooked family restaurant. We were a bit carniverous and got the steaks. Delicious!

Back home, I missed the farewell party for a few guys at work.
Including Scott Armstrong. Come back to visit!

Travel Day

Had a nice non-stop flight to Boston Logan Airport. I arrived two hours earlier than my friend Ashley, and then her flight was delayed three hours. With the extra time, I decided to pick up the rental car early and go to the Boston Temple. Unfortunately, the address didn't register on the GPS, so I put in the meetinghouse addresses for the city and drove from place to place until I came across the temple. The people there were so nice! And though I changed in the parking lot...twice...there were no problems in making it in and out in time to get back to the airport to pick Ashley up. Then there was a misty, spooky 2 1/2 hour drive to Brunswick where they had our room key taped to the office door since we arrived after their closing time. Road trip time!

Halloween's Come Early?

At work today we did trick-or-treating in our department between divisions. WAY too much food, but oh was it good! Our division did caramel popcorn bags and had an industrial popcorn popper with flavored salts that people could use.

Fred Edwards and Edgardo Carbajal making popcorn

Mom came up for lunch again while waiting for the boy at Primary Childrens. We went to Winger's, but it really didn't do me any good since I was so full from our office trick-or-treating! I just went for the company and to chat.

The ward FHE activity was carving pumpkins. I tried my hand at carving a bat...free-hand. It was so ugly that I ended up just leaving it there. Wonder what's become of it...?

Spanish Ward

I went to my parents' Spanish ward again with them - still as part of my mom's bday present. She likes it when someone sits next to her translating what is being said so she understands what is going on better. I actually felt really comfortable in understanding and communicating...almost as if my Spanish is improving. How can that be though?

Jenny and Brett left a gorgeous bouquet of flowers for me outside my bedroom door. They said it was just because. I think its because they really enjoyed their time at Packsley's Penthouse!

I forgot to mention that last night after the presents, I played with all the nieces and nephews. They had little guns that shoot out eight, soft, styrofoam darts, which I would shoot at them while they tried dodging. SO MUCH FUN! When the parents started yelling for their kids to be quiet, and realized I was with them making the noise, we were banished from the room. Instead I counted to twenty so the kids could hide, would shout - 'ready or not you shall be shot', then I stalked them around the house and shot them when I found their hiding places. Hehehe...