October was a month filled with fun adventures. We started out the month heading up to Fallen Leaf lake, for Princeton in the Sierras. This was the fourth year of this family tradition. We stopped at Fenton's on the way up for some yummy food and ice cream.
As we got close to the lake, both kids had fallen asleep.
Once again, one of the fun activities was rock climbing!
Elsa excelled at this, and Liam is starting to enjoy it.
The kids really enjoyed "fishing" for crawdads and playing on the docks.
And even on a trip needed their night-time storytime.
On Sunday, before leaving, we had some fun time on the water on a stand-up paddle board and paddle boating with friends.
A lovely weekend of family time.
The next weekend in October I headed out in Boston for the Head of the Charles regatta. I raced in the Princeton Alumni Fat Cats Women's Masters 8. It was amazing.
My classmate Stephanie helped organize the team and added me to the roster.
I got to see other college friends like Phoebe, who was racing against us.
And a Bay Area friend, Julia, came out to watch.
It was a perfectly awesome race weekend.
For the last weekend in October we went to Apple Hill for apple picking and hanging out with some Princeton friends, Chris and Steve, at their home in the foothills. Kelli was also out visiting from DC, making it a mini-Princeton reunion.
I enjoyed my morning yoga.
The kids enjoyed picking over 60 apples!
Elsa was very good at climbing in the tree.
We then had a lot of apples to peel for an apple pie, stewed apples over pancakes, and apple sauce!
What a great fall month!
