November is almost over!

I can't believe Thanksgiving is in just a few days!  I'm sooo excited for Thanksgiving.  I love the parade, I love football, and I love food!  So, it's a great day.  Now, I usually wish for crazy weather (snow, rain, freezing temps, winds) for Thanksgiving for the parade to make it more exciting, but now I feel really bad because apparently the winds might be SO bad on Thanksgiving morning in NYC that they might not fly all of the big balloons!  So... it's basically all my fault, and I'm really sorry.  Maybe it won't end up being as bad as they're thinking, and the balloons will still fly in the parade...

I'm making an apple pie as my contribution for Thanksgiving dinner, and tomorrow (day before Thanksgiving) I'm actually cooking my first turkey, because our neighbor gave us a fresh turkey.  So, I read online that fresh turkeys are only good for 1-2 days in the fridge, so I didn't want to risk it by waiting til this weekend!  I work from home tomorrow, so we'll be eating turkey for dinner tomorrow night as long as it turns out ok!  I'll be sure to take a picture of my first turkey!! 

I took a picture of my Thanksgiving decorations! 

Here's everything!  Including 2 gourds :) I love gourds! 

Here's Guinness cuddling his pumpkin toy leftover from Halloween!  He loooves his pumpkin toy.

A few weeks ago Kevin, Mo, and I took the train up to NYC to visit Kevin and Mo's cousin Ryan and his wife Janet in Brooklyn, and their new baby Elena!  Elena is sooo tiny and cute, and she just slept the whole time we were there!  We all took turns holding her though!  

Here's Mo and little Elena!  Mo also knitted that blanket that little Elena is wrapped in!  It looks amazing. 

While we were in Brooklyn, we decided to stop by Brooklyn Brewery because it's a pretty huge and awesome brewery, and it was literally like 2 blocks from Ryan and Janet's apartment. 

Last weekend Kevin and I took a quick roadtrip up to Hershey, PA!  It's only like an hour from our house, and we wanted to go see the Christmas decorations at the Hershey Lodge, and we also picked up some concert tickets at the stadium in Hershey because Hall & Oates are going to be playing there this winter!  And while we were in Hershey, we also stopped by Troegs Brewery for a tour and some lunch. 

Hershey Lodge!

Hershey Lodge! 

Hershey Lodge! 

Troegs! 

Troegs has this whole area where they put really cool art that people have made for a Troegs art competition.  Here's a cool hop bearded man! 

Here's a cool skull made out of some Troegs parts (a bottle opener, some bottle caps, etc)

A little felt man! 

A recipe for making Troegs beer. 

 

And here's a super cool painting of an octopus with a hop body! 

 And lastly, here's my updated Fall Bucket List:

I've finished almost everything!  Still have to watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and the Thanksgiving Day Parade.  We did not make it to Lambertville to look at Halloween decorations this year, and we didn't see Young Frankenstein but we DID see Hamilton so that's even better!!  Haha :) . I had never seen What We Do in the Shadows and I LOVED it - It is SO funny!!!!  I was cracking up.  And Kevin and I had never seen A Quiet Place, and we LOVED it too!!  It was so good. 

That's it for now! I'll do another post after Thanksgiving with a picture of my turkey!