!i! Thriller & Pumpkin Carving !i!

Last weekend for Halloween, we carved pumpkins and went to Thriller with my sister Carolyn and her husband Matt.I always get a little scared when we go to Thriller because some of the people wander around twitching and breathing in your face. (The cast members...not the public thank goodness). Luckily...we arrived early due to the game and there were no people outside to bother us. I was relieved...until...they let them loose inside the theater. They started climbing all over the chairs.

One of them was pestering a girl in front of us. A.J. had the camera ready. As soon as she looked up, he flashed the camera 12 inches away from her face. And then she came after me. Suddenly, I see this:
...about two inches from my face. I could feel her breathing on me. I wanted to swat her away, but thought I may get kicked out for hitting one of the cast members. Eventually she moved on. Then another one came to bother the girl in front of us. She sat down right next to the girl.

A.J. got out of his chair and sat right next to the creepy person and tried to make small talk. "Hi...how's it goin?" he said. She just glared at him. Then they proceeded to have a staring contest to which A.J. lost. Then the show began.
The show was awesome, as usual. It is such a fun thing to do around Halloween. We all had a great time!

And I couldn't resist showing a photo of my cute little pumpkin all lit up:
...yes, that's a bow...not a scar.

!i! Autumn Leaves and Cattle !i!

Due to the events of the previous weekend, we decided to celebrate our anniversary the following weekend. We drove up emigration canyon and looked at the changing leaves. While up there, we met a couple that was us in 30 yrs (give or take a British accent)!
This group of couples get out of the car and offer to take our picture (above). The husband takes our picture and then his wife in her British accent asks "Did you get any of the trees in the picture?" Keep in mind, we are standing in front of about 50 billion trees. The husband says sarcastically "Oh no! I missed all the trees." A.J. and I cracked up laughing because that's the exact sort of thing we would have said to each other.

We took a picture for them and then continued on our way. We ate dinner at Ruth's Diner and caught a pretty awesome sunset on our way out of the canyon.

The next day, we drove up to Kamas and ate at our favorite little sandwich shop: The cutting board. This is such a small town, there is a business next door called "Videos and Tanning." Now that is a multi-tasking entrepreneur!

We ate our lunch and then continued up the canyon called Samak (for those of you who don't know, this canyon was brilliantly named Kamas backwards). There is a nudist ranch up there, but luckily nobody was out and about.

We passed a sign that said "open cattle range." They sure weren't kidding. Out of front windshield, we saw this:
...and she was not planning on moving anytime soon. We had to carefully and slowly drive around her and continued on our way. We stumbled upon Provo River Falls. Provo River Falls is a cascading waterfall of the Provo river and it was beautiful up there!

We turned around and headed for home taking numerous pictures of all the changing leaves on our way.