Aunt Amelia Visit

Woo, it's been awhile since I've blogged. I think I'm starting a new trend by always opening up my posts like that. 

I've been having trouble keeping up on life lately, let alone the blog. But here we are! Let's do this!

Amelia came to visit us about a month ago which was so much fun. We were all super excited to spend a week with her. We love her so much! We had lots of fun while she was here, hopefully she did too :).

Here's some pictures of all the fun things we did in no particular order.

We went to Little Tree Orchards to pick apples. This activity was a bit disappointing since it was rainy, the apple cider donuts were cold and just not that great, and they barely had any apples to pick. We didn't end up getting any because the few trees that did have apples did not look good at all. We still had fun hanging out playing ping pong and fooseball in the orchard store/hang out area.

We went to Iron Kettle Farm and went on a hay ride, tried some more apple cider donuts, as well as pumpkin donuts (the verdict being that they taste exactly the same). I really enjoyed walking around seeing all of the pumpkins that they had dressed up as tv/book characters. Very impressive.

So sad that the tree coloring in the background of this picture wasn't better! It has been a pretty disappointing fall this year in terms of fall foliage colors. 

We stopped in at the Ithaca Book Sale (it was my second time going, but I couldn't help myself from going again. Picture books!) This book sale is huge. It happens twice a year and people come from all over and leave with suitcases full of books being sold at very cheap prices. I love it so much.

The kids hanging out under the book stacks looking at seek and find books while I look through the books above them.

 Hike at Fillmore Glen. 

Trying our hand at apple picking again. Grismore Farms had much more to offer. 

After apple picking we moved on to the pumpkins. 

We ate at one of our favorite places to eat here in Ithaca, Circus Truck. We took the food up to campus and met up with Darin to eat before climbing the tower to listen to the chimes. 

Walk around Beebee Lake.

 The two things Shae said that he wanted to do with Aunt Amelia when she came to visit were:
Swimming

and

Science Center

We made sure to do both.

Checking out the new China exhibit--tying ropes and doing Tai-chi.

 Chinese theatre. Shae only lasted about a minute before he was like, get me out of this dress.

 Exploring worms.

Trip to the Botanical Gardens for some family photos.

We had a blast visiting all of these places with Amelia, as well as hanging out at home watching shows and playing games (lots of Disney Scene-It).

We were all so sad when she had to leave, but Belén especially had a hard time. She burst into tears in the car when she saw Amelia walking towards the airport and even though it's been a month since her visit, every few days she mentions Amelia coming back to our home, or her going to Amelia's home.

Thank you for coming out so far to visit us Amelia!