Hello November

One of our neighbors puts up inflatable decorations for every holiday. This includes holidays like Arbor Day. He has a glorious mustache and no discernible reason for putting up these inflatables, but he does it anyway. One day we would like to be that house, but for now we lack both the inflatables and the space to store them.

The Pumpkin-Skeletons Dance, Too

Things finally got cold up here and we pulled out our winter clothes. Our favorite spots have also started to welcome the new(ish) season:

Leaves on our old running path...

Our friend Joe turning everything into a pumpkin...

The Stomping Ground shoving Nutella into pastries...

So that has been good. And our jobs have been good. Mine (Mike's) got considerably easier after finishing the first of my four required rotations. Kelsey's has also been good. She is interacting with students and making them cry, but in a good way, which is sort of her favorite thing to do.

Kelsey's office setup.

Last week was Halloween, so we went to Absi's place for her annual Halloweentown party and watched the traditional terrible/great Disney movie from so many years ago. Before the party, Josh, Kelsey, and I went to our first official (Midsummer was a freebie) Shakespeare Theater show of the season: Salome.... A new version of Salome.... In which Salome is a political rebel and her mother isn't even a character in the show. 

The cookie was delicious. The show was... not as bad as we thought it would be, given the high-art nature of it all.

November 1st Kelsey and I woke up bright and early to run a 10k for no real reason. We had signed up for it last year and then forgotten about it, but the nice people who run the race (in the business sense) let us transfer our registration to this year. We almost forgot about it again, but we wanted our free race t-shirts and medals.

It was a bit rainy...

But we made it!

That's it for now. Lots of little trips coming up as we move into holiday season, and we're excited to be able to spend a little more time with our friends and families!