Happy Halloween!

Preparing to hand out candy:
Eating dinner is a little tricky with so much paint:

Our pumpkins (Brian carved the ghoul, I carved the stack of jack-o-lanterns):

The carving process:

Earlier this month at the Pumpkin Show in Circleville (this is where I got the pumpkins we carved):

Happy Birthday Brian

Hello readers. This weekend, we celebrated Brian's birthday. It was nice to relax and take a little break from writing for both of us. On Saturday, we went out for dinner with Brian's parents. Then we sang and had cake (see pics). Today we went to hear Brian's cousin's band and hung up Halloween decorations.

Brian is in this picture twice. Can you spot him?

Homecoming

Today (Saturday) was Wooster's homecoming, so Brian and I drove over to spend some time on campus this afternoon. We saw some people we hadn't seen in a while and walked around notinig the things that had changed since we were students. We also loitered by some doors so we could get into a few buildings and reminisce. (I really have no idea how to spell reminisce. Is that right?)


There was a small parade for the alums, featuring the Wooster marching band.

The band also put on a concert, which was great. They played all the old favorites you would hear at a football game. While traditional at homecoming events, there wasn't actually a football game on campus today. There were other sports to watch (cricket, soccer, lacrosse), but we weren't really interested.

Highland dancers with pipers behind:

Bagpipers playing a song:

The band:

Dam Visit

On Friday, Karen and I went to the Hoover Dam, which is on the east side of Columbus, for a walk. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed looking out at the water and walking over the dam. Here are a few pictures from that day:

After the water goes through the dam, it forms this little river.

Here is the water rushing out of the dam:

This is the other side of the dam, with the reservoir:

Like I said, it was a really nice day. This would be a really pretty spot to visit again once the trees get some fall color.

We saw this odd little thing on the water and were curious about what its purpose is. There is a logo on the side, but I couldn't make it out. It seemed too small for a boat, but too elaborate for a bouy. Brian thinkes that the black panel is a solar panel and that this device might be used to monitor water quality. Any other guesses? And does anyone recognize that round blue logo?