Last Weekend

This past weekend we enjoyed the beautiful Fall weather with a hike at the Niagara Gorge.

Actually, during the week Lara and I snuck out there by ourselves when the kids were in school for an "anniversary hike".  We also celebrated with lunch at Viola's Submarine House, a well known local joint.

 This weekend Gracie also got a last minute invite to a birthday party from a friend, Ava, that moved away over the summer.  They were both happy to see each other and Gracie also loved the Ninja Warrior gym.

The other fun part of the weekend was trick-or-treating at the Haunted Harbor in Tonawanda.  Lara made an awesome guinea pig costume for Grace, and Grant dug up some of my old memorabilia and went as a prom king.  This event seems to keep getting bigger and bigger with more boats participating and more and more people coming.  Grant wasn't too excited to go but in the end, he did agree to dress up.

Going Rogue

This past week we found the Saturn's replacement...a 2008 Nissan Rogue with 80,000 miles.  We called about a lot of cars, looked at a few, and kept finding junk.  We finally found this one that was AWD, seemed to be taken care of, and we got it for $4700.  Hopefully it can live up to the standard set by the Saturn.

October

October started out with our first RV trip!  We spent 1 night at Sinnemahoning State Park in PA.  We saw quite a few elk including 2 big bulls.

We went on a beautiful hike right from the campground.  We didn't see any elk in the woods there but saw lots of beautiful forest.

Lara definitely made full use of the kitchen cooking a delicious squash/pasta dinner and a nice hot breakfast the next morning.

The next weekend was our second RV trip.  We traveled south to Edinboro for homecoming.  We spent our first night in the McComb parking lot so we were right there for our race the next morning.  

We all ran the Kilted Mile on Saturday morning.  Both kids ran great and we were quite proud that Gracie ran the whole thing without walking.  

We stuck around for the parade and the community luncheon.  After that, we hiked around campus for a bit before heading to Aunt Amy's for the rest of the day and night.   

The rest of September

The weekend after the tough mudder we were back at Papa's to pick up the RV and watch the Fiscus girls run a cross country race at Commodore Perry.

We decided to pitch the tent in the carport since bad storms were in the forecast.  It ended up being a good decision as we got tons of rain.

The notary had quite a few issues transferring the title but eventually, after giving up on the computer and doing via paper, we got our Winnebago Warrior.

We also had lots of other September fun including...

ice skating,

Light the Night,

and hanging out in the RV.  We haven't taken a trip with it yet but are anxious to!

 

The only bad news of the month was the death of the Saturn.  It sure seems to be a blown head gasket and at this point isn't worth the money, time and energy to fix it.  Lara and I have had that car since 2004 when we lived in Texas...before marriage and kids.  We got it, for $1500, thinking it would last a few years and we ended up driving it for 15 years and 260,000 miles!  No shame in that, but now we are one "car"ing it until we find a suitable replacement.  RIP Saturn, we hate to see it go, especially when it still looks so good!