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October 29, 2013 M. Sullivan Photography Family, Holidays, Photos

Spooktacular

While Sebastian was away at a friend’s birthday party on Saturday, we took Sophia and one of her BFF’s to Glensheen’s Halloween Spooktacular. We went two years and were pleasantly surprised that they had changed things up a bit. We enjoyed touring the grounds after dark and viewing 1,000 carved pumpkins.

Here’s a description of the event:

Visitors will walk through the spooky Cottonwood cathedral, a torch-walk against the wrought iron fence to the West Gate where a mass of grinning pumpkins will greet you at the entrance of the mansion, lit for enchanted effect. Inside, witness a Pumpkin Seance contacting the spirits of old ghouls, Herman and Lily Munster and Morticia and Gomez Addams, artistically cut onto pumpkins. Then it’s down to the mansion’s winter garden to pick the winner of the pumpkin carving contest. Back outside, tour the Bridge of Sorrows where hundreds of pumpkins are fleeing in terror over the orangey/red waters.

Sophia and her friend found a number of favorite pumpkins – Frankenstein, mummy, owl and cat.

Glow sticks were for sale along the way.

The tour concluded with s’mores and a fire dancer.

We haven’t finished our own preparations for Halloween. We still have three pumpkins waiting to be carved. Here are the two that we carved at my Mom’s earlier this month.

Later this week we will have photos of Sophia dressed up as a fortune-teller and hopefully more carved pumpkins.

October 21, 2013October 21, 2013 M. Sullivan Photography Family, Landscapes, Photos, School, Weather

Road Trip To The Country

It was supposed to be just a day off from school – sleeping in, hanging out with friends, playing games. Instead, I decided that the kids and I would take a road trip to visit my Mom out in the country. We did a little eating, a little cupcake decorating, a little trekking through the woods and a little pumpkin carving. A great mix of lots of good things.

Sophia, Grandma, Sebastian & The Pumpkins

We carved pumpkins a bit early for Halloween. The cool weather we are having may actually preserve them until the 31st. Unless of course they freeze. Snow flurries were in the air today and temps were below freezing. Fall is going by too fast.

October 12, 2013 M. Sullivan Photography Daphne, Family, Lake Superior, Landscapes, Photos, Weather

Buena Vista

The forecast was for another beautiful fall day on Friday. Warm, sunny, breezy and highs in the upper 60’s . Mike planned to take the day off to study for his outdoor emergency training refresher/CPR class. He thought I should take the day off as well. It didn’t take a lot of convincing. The morning started off very promising. Another beautiful sunrise. While Mike got Sophia to the bus stop, I made a quick trip over to Hawk Ridge to watch the morning come to life.

I wasn’t the only one who drove to the overlook to watch the sun come up over Lake Superior. An older gentleman pulled up right before me and took a few photos with his point-and-shoot camera. We exchanged a few remarks about the beautiful sunrise and he left a short time later. Next, a motorcycle pulled up. The guy lit a cigarette and watched the sunrise. Once he was done, he also departed. Then a minivan with a Mom and her kids drove up. They got out, took a few photos with their point-and-shoot camera and also left shortly thereafter. Luckily I didn’t have to rush off and was able to enjoy several minutes of the colorful skies.

Mike continued studying for most of the morning. I did some outdoor work – cleaning up my container garden, picking grapes and sweeping the decks. We decided that Mike needed a break and Daphne needed some exercise, so we drove over to Hartley Park to take a hike in the woods and view the fall colors.

It was time to head home, have lunch and get ready for the rest of our day. Flu shots for Mike and the kids (I already had mine), Bulldog pizza for dinner and tickets to the UMD Bulldog Hockey Game.

p.s. The Bulldogs won and Sebastian was the lucky winner of a pizza delivered to his seat. I’m not sure who was happier, Sebastian or his middle school buddies that were also at the game. They devoured it in a matter of minutes.