Fall is my all time favorite season of the year. I love the smells, the colors, the trees, the apple cider, the pumpkins, and candy corn. This past weekend Kyle and I went on a hunt for pumpkins. We saw some at Albertsons, but we decided that we want to go to a pumpkin patch instead and pick them ourselves. We did stop by a place called The Big Red Barn in Santaquin. It's a country store that sells fruit (lots of peaches, apples, and cherries), fresh apple cider, crafts, home decor, gifts, fall decorations, homemade fudge and caramels , etc. I loved it! We bought a gallon of cider, and it was some of the best I have ever had. We then went to Cracker-Barrel and looked around for a while. We bought some old-fashioned candy, including Fruit Stripe gum (the kind with the zebra cartoon and the wrappers with the tattoo). They had some cute Christmas dishes, lots of John Deere stuff, rocking charis, and old-fashioned toys. It was fun to look around in there, and I also bought a harmonica for Chris. Sorry Emma and John!
On Friday night, I went to my first haunted house. I have never screamed so much in my whole life. It was called the Castle of Chaos in Salt Lake. It is voted one of the scariest haunted houses in North America by the Travel Channel. And boy, it was!! There were different attractions to choose from, and we decided to do the scariest...the Ultimate X-Scream. Even when we pulled in to the parking lot there was a man running around and through the crowd with a chainsaw!! I wish I would have brought my camera, it was so scary! We had to enter into the attraction alone, too!! I loved it and hated it at the same time. When I first entered it was pitch black. Voices came from all around and told me to get on my hands and knees and crawl. All I could say was "seriously?!" a couple of times, and they kept saying "yes, you must get get on your hands and knees". We also had to get inside wooden coffins that made a chainsaw noises and vibrated, until they opened up into a mini slide, where another man with a chainsaw was at the bottom waiting to get us! FREAKY! There were so many different and scary rooms - one with a girl chained to a wall begging for help, another room with a family who like to torture and eat people, one with a crazy girl and her doll, and so many more! Anyway, enough about that. It was scary, but I still want to go back and do the other attractions!
Kyle and I also went to the Utah State Fair in the beginning of September. It was pretty fun, but I definitely wore the wrong shoes... But we went on the Ferris Wheel and played some games and got some cinnamon almonds. We walked around and looked at all of the crafts and quilts, went to the "freak show", looked at all of the animals, and watched some bands play. It was just a little bit better than the Rochester Fair back in NH...haha.
On last week we went for a drive on the Mt. Nebo loop. I love going for drives, and this one had a lot of great views. It took us about 4 hours to go everywhere and make some stops, but it was worth the time. The colors on the trees were starting to change, too, so that made it even better. On Saturday we went to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point. It was very interesting, and I can't believe how big they were! Some of those teeth could snap me in two with one bite! I'm kind of glad they aren't around anymore...The movie Jurassic Park kind of ruined my like of dinosaurs anyway...
Anyway, that's all that has been going on lately. I'm sure there's more, but it's been a few months so I don't remember everything. Except we went to the Thanksgiving Point Gardens, and I've decided that I want my backyard and garden to be just like those gardens. They were beautiful.
the Fair!
View from the ferris wheel
a rocking-plane instead of a rocking horse!
a rhino at the Zoo!
Chris!!
