Fire-side Dining
Luckily for us, dad makes a great fire 🙂
Although fire-side dining and living in six layers of clothes was fun, we were mighty happy when the power and heating came back on!
Happy Halloween!
We didn’t let downed power lines, snow or lack of electricity stop us!
We still dressed up,
hit the local parade
and did a little trick-or-treating 🙂 Happy Halloween!
For some pictures of the local parade – check our local site out.
Some of the local houses were really cool and scary. Follow this link to check them out. We have lots of ideas for next year.
Snow – what the?
The first warning signal was when our 3.5 hour air-hop home became a 9.5 hours journey via upstate NY in a tin-can full of beyond-tired toddlers. Way to go Contintental! two glasses of water and a granola bar in 9.5 hours does not encourage return patronage! If only we could have flown Qantas, we might have been *stranded* in Turks + Caicos 🙂
It was a rude shock to return home in the dark to a snow-covered house without power. Brrrrr 😦
The next morning, cautiously, after looking out the window….
and then out the door…
We suited up….
and made snow angels and had snow fights 🙂
Then we went for a drive aound town to survey the damage. Unfortunately the tree damage was worse than post hurricane, as the leaves still had their leaves and some bucked or split under the weight of the snow. It is such a shame Maplewood losing all these old beautiful trees 😦
(Here some piccies from around town. We didn’t really take many but these are of a snow man and some of the autumn trees that we thought looked pretty)
Elmo’s Birthday
We were so lucky! Elmo has his birthday while we were there and he shared his cake with us!
We also got to make cookies with Cookie Monster 🙂
Sesame Street Parade
If you can’t beat ’em….
Join ’em…
and so we did! We danced along with the best of them!
I’ll do it
On the Monday night of our holiday, we went to Teppanyaki for dinner.
Our chef Sami was fantastically entertaining. He did all sorts of cool stuff. At one point during the meal he threw food to all of the dads for them to catch in their mouths. After which Lachie promptly volunteered to be next!
Sami just loved Lachie after than 🙂
Grace Bay Beach, Turks and Caicos
The only disappointment was for the family shell-collectors. The shells were few and far between but there were plenty of other things to do 🙂
Turks and Caicos
What can we say but amazing! Tucs and Caicos was beautiful and the resort was excellent. ELi keeps telling us when she has “infinity money” we’ll move there. FIngers crossed 🙂
Our photos don’t do it justice but we’ll put them in for our memories anyway. We’ll also try and capture some of the special moments in the next few posts XXxx
The pool and slides were excellent fun…
As were the late night swims!
The room was great…
As was the food…
 
Particularly the cupcakes!
The Sesame street crew were holidaying there too. They were kind enought to put on some shows…
We had a great time!
Jack-O-Lanterns
What to do with all the pumpkins that we keep collecting everywhere we go?
Dad knows…
Then we turn the lights out and…
Pumpkin Picking
Today we decided that we needed some pumpkins to add to our house decorations for Halloween. We decided to go to Wightman’s Farm in Morristown to pick them.
First we looked around the market…
Who new there were so many types of pumpkins (and friends)…
Then the pumkin slingshot…
Then there was the hayride…
Then the real business – it was time to choose our pumkins!
Then we lost and subsequently found Eli in the maze.
Another quick play and then home 🙂
Now the questions is – if we put our pumpkins out in our front garden as Halloween decorations, how do we keep the squirrels off?
Wallamble 