Columbus Day

How appropriate that on Columbus Day we drove on Columbus Highway?!? I told Brett that I felt like we should be singing a Columbus song. Good thing we don't know any.
Yesterday, we drove to the great state of Massachusetts. The original plan was to head up to Camp Joseph in Sharon, VT, which is the land that the church owns and the birth place of our beloved prophet. However, we stayed up WAY too late chatting with friends and family on skype so we decided to alter the destination just a bit. We headed up to what is called the "Mohawk Trail", which is supposedly supposed to be the best scenic drive to see the fall foilage in all of New Enlgand. Unfortunately, once we got there we were told that we were about 1 week too early and that we weren't really going to get to see too many colors.
Despite the minimal fall foilage we had a glorious day! We went to the Village of Shelburne Falls and it really is just as village. It's very small town and was so nice to be able to feel like we weren't surrounded by 5 million people who just wanted to run us off the road. We did get to see some beautiful fall colors - however, you'll just have to take my word for it because we didn't/couldn't really pull off the road to get a good picture.
But here are some pictures from the Village of Shelburne - they are known for their Galcier Potholes and the Bridge of Flowers so the pictures are all from those two sites.

Bridge of Flowers

Brett loving every minute on the bridge

View of hillside from Bridge - much our drive looked like this

This is a picture that I took for my grandpa.
Brett kept calling me 'Adrian' for those who might enjoy that little tidbit

The Glacier Potholes with the town in background

Potholes

Potholes



These were the first horses that we have been able to actually see - we know there are more around, we just haven't seen any



As a side note, here's an update on how the couch turned out. (I made the pillows too!)

I also was given the task to recover the cushions from a rocking chair from a lady in our ward. She had the fabric already and said that she's been waiting for about 12 years to get this chair recovered. I honestly thought that I wouldn't be able to do it and make it look good. But i did it! I think this is the project that I am the most proud of right now. Here's what the cushions looked like before and after - I didn't get one of the whole chair because the frame was at her house.

Before

After (there were 5 pieces, this was the biggest)

Another sidenote - this is the beach by our house. in the distance is Long Island. There is only one building that is on Long Island that we can really see without straining our eyes to see - but you can tell there is a land mass in the distance



Fall is here and we are loving it!