Donuts, soccer and more!

Our last few posts have been very word heavy, so here's a little visual entertainment!

We've had a few very full days of family fun, even if some of the fun had to be modified due to lingering colds. Here's Alida trying out eating a donut off a string for the first time. 



Saturday was Kali's final soccer game - maybe she should eat many donuts the eve of all her soccer games.  It was fun to note her improvement over the course of the season.  We even caught a little piece of the action.



We, along with some Benner family members, headed to Vintage Virginia Apples and Albemarle Ciderworks for their Apple Harvest Festival.  We came home with 20+ pounds of delicious apples and have been enjoying them ever since.  We also went on the most thrilling hay ride ever - through beautiful woodland and up and down hills and around some curves that caused the wagon to creak enough that I leaned as far away from the sides as possible.  When we were getting off, the driver was counting us. I asked if we set a record and he said he thought maybe.  We were all so tired of waiting in line that we were piling on the wagon as fast as we could.


From there, we headed to to the Blue Ridge Tunnel in Crozet and enjoyed a candlelit dinner with most of the Benner family.  Quite memorable! It was an odd sensory experience to be hiking through the forest with Papa John's pizza wafting into my nose!