Travel Town

We were in LA for the weekend visiting our college student and her big sister during Parents Weekend at Oxy. After the campus festivities on Saturday we all headed over to the Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park - an amazing collection of retired locomotives. And for a third time in as many weeks we rode a miniature train around the park. Great fun!

Halloween

We got a second year out of the Dalmatian costume, though Alex was a wee bit too tall for it. Luckily it was still in the mid-sixties when we were out with two girls from the neighborhood, so all we needed underneath was a pair of light cotton pjs. Alex loved his first experience with Trick or Treating - he scampered along with the group, stood patiently with them at the door, and politely accepted treats that were offered. Until we got to the end of the street and started back. Then he didn't understand why we weren't heading up the same driveways we'd just come down. He lost it when I wouldn't let him visit the same house twice. So we called it a night and came home. Which was fine since none of us need the sugar.

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California Hayride
(note we are taking a hayride through a parking lot next to a strip mall)

It's Fall in California. We've had a couple of days of rain in the last few weeks (early this year; it's usually November before we start seeing rain again), the leaves on the oak trees are turning, the nights are requiring the winter blankets on the bed, and the baseball season is almost over.

We spent much of today at the Nut Tree pumpkin patch and amusement park. Alex had little interest in pumpkins, corn or hay....but there was the back end of a semi-tractor trailer parked next to the pumpkin patch and someone's camper parked next to the hay wagon tractor and those were pretty cool, in his opinion. He did eventually warm up to the corn bath - a gigantic "sandbox" filled with dried corn kernels. He had no interest in actually getting into the thing, but when he discovered you could pour kernels over yourself like water in the bathtub, he was pretty amazed.