Picking Out Pumpkins

Going to Days Farm to pick out our pumpkins is fun. The price is right too! For $5.00 you get to go on a hayride out into the pumpkin patch and pick out your own pumpkins...one price no matter how big or little of a pumpkin you find! There are goblins haunting the hayride too.

Jonny was very thoughtful in picking out his pumpkin. He wanted one that was just the right shape but really big too.

Lex was more concerned with picking out a pumpkin that was bigger than 10". He even brought along a couple of rulers that he found to measure each pumpkin and find out which one was the biggest.

Madrid October 3-8, 2008

Wow! Talk about an amazing place! I absolutely fell in love with Madrid. It's funny, when I got home from the Bahamas I thought, "That was the coolest place I've ever been." When I got back from sailing the the Mediterranean off the coast of France I thought, "That is the coolest trip I have ever taken!" Once again when I was climbing up to the Parthenon in Athens and to the hanging monasteries in Meteora, Greece I thought once again, "Greece is the most amazing place in the world!" Spain has equally surprised and amazed me! What a gorgeous city & what beautiful people!

Here I am out for an evening at Plaza Santa Ana where the nightlife doesn't really get started until 1:00am. This picture was us sitting out in the plaza for tapas (appetizers) about 10:00pm. There were fire dancers and other street entertainers...AWESOME! (Yes, I am drinking a REAL Coke because I decided on this trip that Coca-Cola Light SUCKS... not even close to my daily Diet Coke w/Lime.)


Me- standing at the Hanging Gardens near the Museum Reina Sofia.


At the Palacio de Velasques in Retiro Park, Madrid.


Yes, Tom Cruise was here...Ha Ha!


At the Palacio Real (Royal Palace)-


I can't wait to go back! I want to take the boys to Madrid. I know they would love it too!