Candle Pin aka New England Bowling

10/30
First things first, we finally made some friends,  Cheri and Sean :) They live right above us... and get this, she's pregnant and is only 10 days ahead of me! Fun, huh? Anyways.... so we decided to go bowling for a date night with our new friends. We didn't know we were so naive about "bowling." Check this out....

These are the balls you use in New England

 

 This are the pins, candle pins! (If you can't tell they're super skinny and straight) 

You also get 3 rolls each turn and they don't clean up the fallen pins until the end of all 3 rolls.

They call it "Candle Pin"

Notice the scores are much lower than what they would usually be in "real bowling" :)
We had tons of fun though playing this "foreign game" with our new friends! :)

Celtics vs. Heat Game

10/26/10

 TD Gardens is the home of the Boston Celtics

My old boss was in Boston so we met up and went to the game. You can see that our seats are in the rafters. Oh yeah we got a free shirt. Too bad it was extra large!

One of the main reasons I wanted to go the game was to see all the big names: LeBron James, Paul Peirce, Dwane Wade, Chris Bosh, Kevin Garnette, Shaq, and the list goes on.

Over all the game was great. Boston beat the newly, big name, picked to win it all Heat.

Words to live by...

Salem, Massachusetts

10/21
In lou of Halloween, Bre and I thought since we live so close to Salem we would visit an actual witch town!

Bre, Alaina, and Me -Alaina is hiding in my Jacket :)-

 

 We took a "ghost tour" of Salem and this guy was our guide. He is actually a history major and a wicken so he had lots of interesting insight about the town!

 This "Gaol" is actually the old Jail. They keep the old fashion spelling, so the people that now work in this building (it's now a business building) don't really realize that they are working in the old Jail.

PSYCHO!

 

 

This city is probably one of the only cities that has "ghost tours" all year round. It was really interesting visiting the city and hearing all the stories from the 1600's! Matt and I later watched "The Crucible" and we plan to go back so he can visit Salem too! It's quite sad that people suffered so much for not admitting to something that they didn't do! I'm glad we are so close to some historic places and can visit whenever we want! Anyways...  I don't really love Halloween, but this was a good way to appreciate the holiday.... so....

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Much needed visit from family :)

Oct. 15th - 22nd 

 Josh, Bre and Alaina came out for a bit while Josh had some time off during UEA weekend! Then Josh had to head back to get to school and Bre stayed so I wouldn't be alone while Matt went on a business trip to New Mexico. So nice huh? It was so nice to have family around!!! And have something other to do than just sit at home by myself! 

Here is a little summary of our week in pictures!

Who wouldn't want this sweet little girl to come visit!

Won't he make the cutest dad! :)

The pumpkin festival! We learned that this is a huge tradition in New Hampshire, so we had to check it out! Pumpkins lined the streets for blocks and blocks!

Check out all those pumpkins!

 

We took a little hike up Pack Monadnock, a nice trail not too far from us. 

We wanted to get some cute pictures of Alaina with the leaves all around but she didn't agree with us! :) Ha ha But she is still so dang cute when she's fussy, don't you think?

Is that not just precious!

One thing I've always wanted to do was walk through a drive-through but we've never been allowed. This night was our lucky night cause they mopped the floors and said it was safer to walk through the drive through! ha ha I'll cross that off my bucket list :)

 You almost don't want to sleep just so you can watch her! Too cute, huh? 

Aren't they both beautiful!!! 

This is the area that makes you feel your walking through the 'Gilmore Girls' town

Then we went for a nice walk around town. This is Milford! It's a nice little town! We really like it! It's really beautiful this time of year!