The First Day of Fall!

This is my absolute favorite time of year! I love the pumpkins, scarecrows, sweaters, bon fires and cooler weather. (Of course, living in Florida, the cooler weather hasn't quite arrived yet!) The boys indulged me yesterday by helping me get out my "fall stuff". So now that the Fall Wreath is on the front door and the scarecrow is in his place in the garden, I am officially ready. Now I must patiently wait until the fall weather arrives in the south and hope that a hurricane doesn't come first and blow my scarecrow away!

North Carolina Trip

Last Thursday Rob suggested that maybe we go to North Carolina for a long weekend. What he really meant was that he planned on leaving that afternoon and driving 10 hours all night to get there. Well, for the past 23 years, life with Rob has been an adventure, so off we went on yet another one! The plan was to go to the Nantahala River in the western part of the state. Rob and Matthew would take a white water kayak class at the Nantahala Outdoor Center and Andrew and I would take a ride on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad. Since Matthew is all about kayaking these days and Andrew has always LOVED trains, somehow the plan made sense at the time. Needless to say it was a quick trip, but the boys had a great time. They even manged a little time to go tubing down Deep Creek in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Matthew "surfs" the river

Tubing down Deep Creek!