Every time I wear a t-shirt on a day that it’s rainy and cold, it feels like a missed opportunity to wear a big comfy sweater.
BRING ON THE WINTER!!
The Fall Festival of Love October 3, 2010
Irving and I started a tradition a few years back that we appropriately deemed The Fall Festival of Love. 🙂 It’s a day to forget we live in Los Angeles, go out, find some pumpkins and enjoy some fall themed festivities.
A quick history:
2005 – Faulkner Farms 
2006 – Riley’s Farm
It rained that year and we didn’t feel like trucking through the mud to get a pumpkin. We tried! 
….we skipped a few years after that…
2010 – Underwood Farm (Again!)
This time, we went with our friends Erika and Timmy = built in photographers. 🙂
It’s a huge farm up in Simi Valley (with lots of pumpkins). 
It was “Public Safety Weekend” there, so they had tons of firetrucks and cop cars and fun stuff for the husbands kids. 
One of the highlights was the giant ‘pumpkin drop’! They had two firemen climb a HUGE ladder and then they dropped pumpkins filled with candy to the ground! (Kind of like a Fall Themed Pinata?)
There they go!
1…2….3… 
GO! 
And then all the kids ran over to get their candy! 
Including that big kid in Orange! 
They have a big farm too, for all the adults kids to enjoy. 
Next up was the Corn Maze! 
Seems easy, but it was quite confusing! 
How do we get out? 
But finally (with the help of some little kids), we made it to the end! 
Nice job, babe! 
And then… it was pumpkin time! 
And some pics in the patch! 
Farmer Irving wanted to drive the tractor! 
Random Fact: Irving knows how to juggle!
Somewhere in between all the fun, we had lunch. There were so many great options to choose from. I started with the spiraled yams! 
YUM! 
I also got a fresh roasted corn on the cob! 
Irving got a French Dip with Chili Cheese fries! (I think he’s fist bumping the camera!) 
Unpictured was the fresh tomato (right off the vine) that I ate as a snack later. There is nothing like a fresh garden tomato, let me tell you.
And that, my friends, was the 5th Annual Fall Festival of Love! 
Halloween Horror Nights
Every year we try to go to Universal Studio’s Halloween Horror Nights. It’s always a fun night (even though I’m usually scared the entire time we’re there!)
I started the night off right this time with a little of this: 
Gotta do what you gotta do!
Before the park opened, our group headed to Saddle Ranch for dinner.
Irving and I shared this (with extra cherries!) 
(It reminded us of our Blue Lagoon Cocktail at our wedding!) 
Anyways, after dinner, it was time to head into the park! 
The scene was set as soon as we walked in! Freddy!! 
Our first haunted house was the new 3D one. That means sexy glasses: 
The wait times weren’t too bad at first, but then they started to get a little ridiculous! 
But it was fun chatting and hanging out in line.
Look, it’s an Erika/Erica Sandwich! 
Gotta love those insanely long Universal escalators! Here’s the whole group! 
It’s crazy how they transform the park to be haunted at night. A lot of the day time stuff gets covered up. We thought this sign was really funny…’Nightmare on Elm Street…Presented in Ogre Vision”. haha They put the haunted house behind Shrek 3D. haha 
And then there’s this… 
We were in the park til 1:30a so by that time, everything seemed funny. 🙂
After a few more haunted houses, we finally made it to the “Terror Tram”. The theme this year was ‘Chucky’. 
The tram drops you off and you get to walk through the backlot of the studio. This year, the walking path was SO COOL. You go from ‘Whoville’ through the ‘Bates Mote’l’. Very cool. They’ve never done that before.
Before we left, we stopped for one more haunted house… the House of Horrors: 
That one wasn’t too scary, but then again, by 1:30a, I was over it.
It was such a fun night. It’s fun to be scared once in a while. Makes you feel like a kid again. 🙂
Flipped October 2, 2010
This morning, Erika and Timmy and I headed back to Circus School!
We went the first time a few months ago and it was awesome, so we went back for a second time! 
This time the class felt MUCH harder than before. There were more stations and they did some more technical tricks. I was sweating by the end!
The best part is always hanging upside down on the trapeze! 
Erika and Timmy were much more coordinated than me!
(Look at that Upside Down Pike!) 
Last time I went, I just couldn’t flip upside down on the Ribbons. You have to do this and then jump so you flip over: 
And this time…I did it! I flipped!! I just closed my eyes and jumped and I went all the way over. It was so exciting. I squealed out loud!! 
I felt like jello at the end. Circus School is quite the workout!
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Speaking of flips…. look what I bought myself today!
A new video camera! Expect lots of fun videos in the future!
2 concerts in 2 nights!
I’m getting too old for this!
On Thursday, we had tickets to see Train at the Greek Theater in Hollywood. It’s one of our favorite bands, so we were very excited to see them in such a small venue.
Before the show, we had dinner at Mexico City and it was amazing. Mexican food is always good, right? 
When we got to the theater, we found out that they had really undersold the show and half the venue was empty. So they reseated everyone into better seats.
See all the empty seats! 
It worked out though, we were really close to the stage. It was a short set, but a good show.
(with a crappy picture…) 
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And last night, we headed to the Ford Theater to see Counting Crows. There were only 800 tickets sold to that show! They premiered the new movie Freeloaders (which Adam Duritz produced). It was hilarious. 
Then after the movie, Counting Crows played an hour set. It was awesome!
Two concerts in two nights. Whew! We still got it!
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