A Peterson Tradition

My family has the tradition each year near Halloween to invite a family over for homemade caramel apples and a movie. 

We always watch the animated Disney film of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and last year my mom sent the dvd to me, so I pulled it out again for this year and invited Uncle Whitney's family over. 

Our caramel apples cooled while we watched the movie.

Kara said this image would haunt her nightmares more than the headless horseman:

 The first bite is really awkward, but after that we chowed down.

Uncle Whitney did not eat his caramel apple, but here is a picture of him telling us all that he will never ever watch "What Does the Fox Say?" Had to capture that after just hearing that my dad watched the video several times that day!

To Be Young

Jared and I are in a unique situation, living with his parents and having no children of our own. Sometimes we get to act like the kids. 

Take yesterday for example. We went to the San Diego Safari Park with my mother-in-law (MIL, as Ami would say), and got to run around with the animals for a few hours.

Jared was sick with a cold, and I had a sore throat, but oh my goodness, does that park make you sanitize and wash. The animals should be okay!

We stopped in at the petting zoo (which had only goats), posed as bats, stood next to lemurs, went on an African safari tram ride, and fed nectar to the birds.

My favorite photo

The bird on my shoulder was SCREAMING in my ear

Jared had to take a picture on this rhino, something he's been doing for years. The two children playing on it when we approached fled the scene, but I saw one of them sneaking back as soon as we left. Popular rhino.

We also got to watch a cheetah run, and apparently this park is the only place outside of a conservation reserve (or the wild) where you can witness this!

That night while saying our prayer, I gave thanks for the new things we learned at the safari park. I then remembered we had seen a giraffe drink from a peeing female to test for fertility.

Yikes.

On This Day in History...

Can you think of anything better to write about than the events of this day in history? 

Me neither. 

Wikipedia lists many things that happened on October 13th. Here are a few that I found interesting:

- Roman Emperor Claudius was poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17 year old stepson, Nero succeeded him to the throne. Hmm...mysterious indeed...

- This day does not exist in Italy, Portugal, Spain, or Poland in 1582 (awkward)

- Establishment of the U.S. Navy was ordered

- The cornerstone of the White House was laid

-  The world was graced with Paddington Bear

- AT&T launched the first cellular network in the U.S.

- A plane crash in Bolivia killed 100 people, 97 of whom were on the ground

I'll go ahead and advise you to never fly on October 13th, as there seems to be a lot of plane crashes and hijacks on this day (though all in foreign countries).

See, now wasn't that interesting?