Quick summary of last weekend
We had a really good time this weekend. Andrew, Sylvia, and I went to the Japanese Fall Festival at a nearby park, and I participated in a tea ceremony. It was a beautiful ceremony - or it would have been if all the goofy rednecks hadn't kept sticking their heads through the teahouse window to see what in tarnation was going on!
After the Japanese Fall Festival, we went to the Harvest Home Festival at my church which a HUGE fundraising event with carnival rides, games, beer garden, bingo, auctions, and all kinds of delicious food. Sylvia rode the ponies a couple of times as well as all the other age-appropriate rides. My friend, Rebecca, was there to help keep her entertained while we all played poker in the beer garden. It was a lot of fun playing poker against the parish priest, Father Tom. I do believe he had some divine help on his side - or he's just plain lucky at poker. I won 75 cents even though I lost a lot more than that. I'm just not lucky but I am a lot poorer today!
This is definitely my favorite time of the year. In addition to the cooler weather, there are all kinds of festivals. This weekend is Cider Days downtown which is a large event where they block off several city blocks of Walnut Street. The street is lined with street musicians, artists of all kinds, food, and dancing. I'm really looking forward to it!
Yesterday was a bit of a bummer. It's hard to believe that it has been 5 years since the terrorist attacks, and the anniversary brings back unpleasant memories for everyone across the US. I was pregnant at the time so I was very hormonal and very emotional. I still get a bit emotional when I think about it too much. It is hard not to be, I suppose, with all the bombardment of images by the media the 6 months after it happened. In between repeatedly showing people jumping to their deaths and the buildings collapsing, they were also trying to give parents tips on how to explain to their children about the scary images. We just couldn't get away from them. Even driving down the street was a reminder because there were bumper stickers and window stickers on every other car. I'm just waiting for Congress or whoever to decide that September 11 should be a national holiday. Let's give the bank tellers another day off!
***I didn't feel like retyping all this so I simply cut-and-pasted all this from an email I sent my British friend. HA! There's laziness for ya.
After the Japanese Fall Festival, we went to the Harvest Home Festival at my church which a HUGE fundraising event with carnival rides, games, beer garden, bingo, auctions, and all kinds of delicious food. Sylvia rode the ponies a couple of times as well as all the other age-appropriate rides. My friend, Rebecca, was there to help keep her entertained while we all played poker in the beer garden. It was a lot of fun playing poker against the parish priest, Father Tom. I do believe he had some divine help on his side - or he's just plain lucky at poker. I won 75 cents even though I lost a lot more than that. I'm just not lucky but I am a lot poorer today!
This is definitely my favorite time of the year. In addition to the cooler weather, there are all kinds of festivals. This weekend is Cider Days downtown which is a large event where they block off several city blocks of Walnut Street. The street is lined with street musicians, artists of all kinds, food, and dancing. I'm really looking forward to it!
Yesterday was a bit of a bummer. It's hard to believe that it has been 5 years since the terrorist attacks, and the anniversary brings back unpleasant memories for everyone across the US. I was pregnant at the time so I was very hormonal and very emotional. I still get a bit emotional when I think about it too much. It is hard not to be, I suppose, with all the bombardment of images by the media the 6 months after it happened. In between repeatedly showing people jumping to their deaths and the buildings collapsing, they were also trying to give parents tips on how to explain to their children about the scary images. We just couldn't get away from them. Even driving down the street was a reminder because there were bumper stickers and window stickers on every other car. I'm just waiting for Congress or whoever to decide that September 11 should be a national holiday. Let's give the bank tellers another day off!
***I didn't feel like retyping all this so I simply cut-and-pasted all this from an email I sent my British friend. HA! There's laziness for ya.
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