Arboretum Fall Festival with Meghan!

The arboretum hosts a trail of scarecrows decorated by local school and scout groups. We walked the scarecrow trail, got caramel apples, played in the hedge maze, saw the glass pumpkin patch and hiked back to the car.

Meghan gave piggyback rides. This is just one thing that makes her awesome.

They go together like mustard and ketchup.

This is Ivan with the bag of kettle corn that gave us the strength to get back to parking lot P4.

This scarecrow was all ‘stache. Here’s the crew trying to make it look like they have mustaches. It didn’t really work, but I love the Dada of the pink pole with mustaches as scarecrow.

Ezri got the camera while in the backseat and takes a car photo on the ride home.

This scarecrow is straight out of Gaiman’s Coraline. She is the other mother.

Ivan loved running from scarecrow to scarecrow proudly proclaiming, “There’s a other one! There’s a other one!”
Elsa scarecrow with ice palace.

It was grey with occasional flashes of blue sky, but it did not rain on us. Here’s the pretty that the trees were doing.

Ezri is posing as an Ezri statue.

This is the leaf fight at Blau house after our adventure.

The caramel apple bar where you get to pick your apple color (red or green) and your toppings (sprinkles, m&ms, toffee, snickers) is a highlight. YUM!

A couple quotable moments from the trip included the moment when I was saying you could only marry one person. Meghan pointed out that you could marry only one person at time. I said, for example, that if your husband died you might remarry.
Ezri said to Meghan, “So, if you marry someone and he’s 99 and then he has a birthday and then he dies. Then you could marry someone else.”
Meghan said, “Yes, but I’d marry someone a little younger than 99.”
Ezri asked, “Like 90?”

Ivan’s best quote was about the scarecrow who had a hammock made for him and was lying down and roasting s’mores. When I said we should go have a look at him, Ivan said, “No, that one’s already dead. Let’s go see the other one.”