FALL

I have a friend who took her blog and made it into a book, as a journal of her life. I loved that idea and want to do that. However, I recognize I have huge gaps in my life on this blog, and so in an attempt to lessen the gaps here is a quick catch photo catch up of fall:



Hiking in the fall is a must. This is one of my favorite hikes, Bridal Veil Falls.




For Fall Break, I flew down to Arizona to hang out with my parents. My mom and I went to Time Out for Women. It was a much needed time out from the world and a chance to focus on hope. We had the opportunity to make kits for a women's shelter in Phoenix and learn how we can have and be a hope for others.


To get into the spirit of Halloween, we got a group to go to The Organ Loft, which features silent movies and this amazing old man in a tux who plays this sparkly organ. It is so cool! If you live in Utah, go. They had the old silent Phantom of the Opera movie. It was quite an experience.


We also decided to do a little ghost hunting and went on a storytelling adventure around Salt Lake. Our storyteller was a lot of fun and the tour took us to all of the famous haunts of Salt Lake. This particular picture was taking at Fort Douglas, where a mischevious ghost named Clem supposedly plays tricks. They said to check our pictures and see if he might be in them. Do you see him?


At the Rio Grande, which was once a train station and now houses a Mexican restaurant, they have a very special ghost. This is the purple lady. She supposedly got in a fight with her love who had just come home from the war. In her anger, she gave him back her engagement ring. In his anger, he threw it. In her haste, she ran for it, but didn't look where she was going and was hit by a train. They say her ghost haunts the bathroom. I'm not sure why, but they say she does. We didn't see her, but others have seen her? And she told them, she was pushed. Ooooooooooo!!!!! Anyway, they have this likeness of her for all to see. All in all, it was a pretty fun time, perhaps a little weird, but filled with lots of good stories.


The end to these fall adventures was Halloween. This year I was the famous Math Girl at my school. I also made Math Girl her own costume and she was me. My class thought it was the most clever thing ever done. However, besides the sixth grade, most people don't know Math Girl, and so when little children pointed and asked their parents who I was they just said, "Um. . . . some Math person, or I think she is suppose to be Wonder Woman, but she has the W's upside down." Oh well my children knew, and I used my powers to only eat one of those divine sugar cookies they give each classroom. Only one, truly a feat for a super hero!