Rodney and I have FINALLY settled into a pretty solid schedule and routine. The first few weeks of substituting, I was still getting used to Rodney's school schedule, so we wouldn't see each other very often. Now, Rodney has a better grasp on his weekly schedule, and we're able to have dinner together every night, and he's only gone two to three nights out of the week. On weekends, we usually do something fun outside of the area. Tomorrow (Saturday) we're going to an Art Museum Community Day at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College (we have to stay indoors Saturday because it's raining all day!) We were originally going to go to Orange, Massachusetts for the Quabbin Garlic and Arts festival, but the rain would definitely put a damper on that trip. :( We're also going apple orchard picking with the saxophone studio on Sunday (no rain-- 70 and sunny!). We'll post pictures when we get back from those places.
Substituting is getting easier... my earlier post talked about the many drastic differences between Amherst High School and the districts I'm used to, but I'm now starting to think I just had a very different mix of classrooms at the beginning. This week I substituted three times at the high school and twice at the middle school, and those three times went great.
The weather's getting colder (as it is I'm sure in Boise), but the trees are starting to change color! I guess the second to third week in October is when it gets really pretty-- we'll take lots of pictures and post them on here. :) New England foliage-- yes!!!
Recently (a couple weekends ago), we went to Vermont to see family friends Rod and Glenna Copeland. It was wonderful to have a relaxing weekend in such a beautiful home right off Lake Champlain.
The view from their back porch. Gorgeous! New York is far off in the background, you can take the lake off to the left to get to Canada. :)
We went to a Balloon Festival, where they launched Hot Air Balloons.
Rodney and-- Rodney! :) This is who Rodney is named after!
Going up!
We also went to Shelbourne Farms, which is a famous farm that's known for teaching other farmers, as well as schools and the community, more about the importance of farming and finding ways of preserving land and using new resources to get the most out of natural resources. Amazing area!
Shelbourne mansion
We also went to visit Aunt Robin, Hillary, and Andrew in Andover, and while we were there visited the Applecrest Farm Orchards in New Hampshire. It was great! We both picked pumpkins and had our first experience in an Apple Orchard!
Petting zoo! :)
We went on a hayride through the apple orchards.
The lovely hay we sat in. It took a minute for us "city folk" to gather the nerve just to sit in hay-- how pathetic are we?! :)
Rodney was pretty excited about eating apples fresh off the tree. :)
Shall we vote? Which bite is bigger? Rodney on the left, me on the right.
Magic! Levitation baby!
Fun country music!
This was adorable-- a pie-eating contest for kids! The winner got to pick out any pumpkin.
Sunflowers! Huge ones!
Picking out our pumpkin...
...and finishing off with ice cream. :)
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