First Week of Fall

It's really starting to cool down over here. Today was a high of 52 and it's gloomy outside. Good day to snuggle up in a sweat shirt with a hot cup of tea, don't you think? School officially back up in session. We have more afternoon classes than we'd like, but our teachers all seem great. We're taking anywhere from 14-16 hours this semester - haven't quite decided if we wanna take Listening or not yet. For sure we'll take Speaking and Comprehension. It's a bit of a lighter load than last semester, but we wanna try to focus on some self study as well.

We have had some fun these last few weeks with some friends. One friend had a birthday this week and we had an "Apple" theme. Crazy, but fun. We made apple cake and another girl made apple crisp. We drank apple juice and even bobbed for apples. Here's John with his prize. Dana found out she isn't as good as she thought she'd be at it - with her big mouth Harper genes and all. Second time, though, she got it with no problem. Apple bobbing is actually quite disgusting (something that you don't really notice as a child). All the saliva and bubbles from other peoples mouths and all. It was quite entertaining to watch people trying to get the apples, but being very careful not to drink the water that was from the tap. Who wants to get Giardia?

Some more of our friends threw a Mexican party with a homemade pinata and all. It was indestructable. Double bagged! We eventually got to the candy and all but the starburst was mutillated!

We thought we'd include a couple pictures of last month since last month was more photogenic than this month. Here we are at a nearby city on a wonderful historical sight. It was so green and beautiful there.