Mmm...Turkey!

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone, and what am I thankful for this year? Hmm, I guess I am thankful that I don't have to cook a turkey again for a whole year. Actually, I don't mind cooking the turkey, I just hate pulling all of the leftover meat off the bones after the dinner is over. It's gross! Oh well, someone has to do it, and I guess that someone is me. Anyway we had a pleasant turkey day with just the three of us. Which is just how Jack likes it (because he doesn't like to share). And as is our yearly tradition, I will now be making stuffing one more time because my mom's recipe is so good, Jack is not satisfied only having it for just one meal. And I don't mind making it a second time because it really is super good and worth the effort! So I suppose the title of this post should have been; Mmm...Stuffing!

All Hallow's Eve

We had a great Halloween this year, with lots of parties, candy and chances to wear costumes. Jack was a party-pooper and didn't dress up this year. I only dressed up once for the Trunk or Treat at our church. But Truman got to wear his costume three times and loved every minute of it! Jack has been showing Truman all of his favorite 1930's scary movies. So Truman wanted to be Dracula or the invisible man (he likes to be scary for Halloween). We didn't think anyone would get who he was if he dressed up like the invisible man so we went with Dracula and he looked great!

Trick or Treating

Truman's class all dressed up!

Jack & Topol: A Night of Theatre

As a general rule Jack despises musicals. He says it is because his sister forced him to watch Grease a billion times when he was a kid. But I just think he is hard-hearted. It is unfortunate for him that he married a woman who loves, loves, loves musicals. My sister, cousin and I spent nearly every Saturday, growing up, watching hour upon hour of musicals at my grandma Isaak's house. There is, however, one musical that Jack enjoys watching...The Fiddler on the Roof! I don't know if it is because it is set in Russia or what, but I know part of the reason he likes it is because the lead in the movie, Topol, is so good. So when I heard that Topol would be doing a farewell tour of Fiddler and that they would be in Baltimore, I knew we HAD to go. So I bought tickets and surprised Jack. It was great to see the show. It actually took a minute after Topol started his dialogue for my mind to wrap around the fact that it was really him and not a recording. Any way as you can tell by the longest post ever, I really enjoyed it!

These pictures are blurry because I couldn't use a flash and I had to take

the one of Topol on the sly.

Hippodrome Theater

October Weekend

Okay, okay, okay! I know it is November already but just pretend it is still October and enjoy these pictures from a couple of Rowe family outings from a few weeks ago.

Fort Washington

So if you ever have a free day with nothing to do, might we suggest a drive down to Fort Washington. It is across the river from Mt. Vernon. Of course you will enjoy the visit more if you have a son and husband who are really into warfare! But even if you don't it is still a really interesting historical site. It was fun to walk all around the fort exploring.

Truman found a snake skin!

Butler's Orchard

So every fall they have a fun pumpkin festival at a local farm. With slides, hayrides, a corn maze, a pumpkin cannon and a whole host of other fun activities. We however got there too late to enjoy any of this and had to settle for picking pumpkins in the pumpkin patch! But it was still fun and we got to spend a ridiculous amount of money on some pumpkins!

At Random

Here are a bunch of pictures of stuff we have been doing in the last couple of weeks!

Look at these guys, they are quite the daredevils!

Truman loves being a goalie and he is pretty good at it. He stopped 3 goals during his turn!

Truman watching the fish at the Natural History Museum.

Nummy, Nummy Lunchy-Munchy with the Willis family at Pot Bellies! HA!

We went to the National Book Festival, which is this great event on The National Mall, where you can meet authors and also hear them give talks. We however did not want to spend hours in line so I just tried to take this picture of Shannon Hale from the side lines. It is pretty blurry, but she looks nice, right?

As you can see it was super rainy that day but there were still tons of people and we had a lot of fun! I think next year I will go sans Jack and Truman and hopefully, sans rain!

We did not labor on Labor Day!

Nor did we consider the plight of the working man. We did however go to Harper's Ferry in West Virginia for a fun daytrip. It is so beautiful there and I am hoping that we can go back and camp, enjoy more time on the river and do some of the hikes. But the town and it's history is so interesting. I know a little bit about John Brown and it was cool to see were everything happened. And as John Brown fought against slavery and the town was a factory town for so long I guess we did consider the plight of the working man after all!

The Shenandoah River was so beautiful. We wished we had brought our bathing suits for a swim.

Truman trying on a Civil War Soldier's gear.

The Fire house where John Brown made his stand.

Hiked up to Jefferson Rock or Jefferson Point or Jefferson Something. Basically Thomas Jefferson was here once and looked at the view!

Good Bye Old Friend

Well, the time has come for us to bid a heartfelt farewell to the good old '99 Camry. The water pump went out & Jack did not want to fix it, so we sold it on Craig's List. Then a fellow came with some cash and took it away. I was literally sad to see it go. It was a good car and it carried us to many, many adventures!

OK, so I was only sad for like a minute! Then I went and got in our new and improved Black Camry and drove Truman to school.