October Entertainment

So it's Friday night in Wilmore and what is there to do? We could see a movie...We could stay in and watch the World Series...We could go out to Wal-Mart...OR we could carve a pumpkin!! Wanting to get into the Fall spirit and take advantage of something fun, Peter and I went to the pumpkin patch Friday night and picked out the perfect pumpkin. You should have seen us. It was silly how carefully we looked at the pumpkins, asking each other "Do any of them jump out to you?" I guess they kind of all looked alike if you know what I mean. But then we found one. A couple of hours later after some creativity and some grunt work, he came to life.

















This is Umpkin the pumpkin. I designed him and Peter carved him. I'm very proud of him!
















See any resemblance?





















Kinda spooky, huh??
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Changing subjects, last weekend I journeyed to St. Louis to visit Jessi! After seeing my Jessi two times in one month I am feeling pretty spoiled. But I couldn't miss out on her birthday. I got to see her new (at least new to me) apartment in the city (so cool!) and see some other fun friends from college. This is a picture of Jessi wearing a part of her present...Irish sunglasses. Very Jessi. Entertaining at least.
















I thought about making her wear them to dinner but I forgot. We went to dinner at the Lemp Mansion. It's supposedly St. Louis' most haunted mansion. Aparently in the early 1900s three people commited suicide (yikes!) in the house and it's been haunted ever since. Although I had been there before, I was getting really freaked out. I was okay until all the lights in the house went out and all the servers were like, "This is strange." The music was still playing, and the light shining on a huge painting of a lady from the early 1900s was still shining. It was the only thing I could see. When the lights finally came on we saw a plaque telling of a suicide that had happened in the room we were seated in. I'm not really sure how I feel about ghosts but it was all a little too much for me. I am not as much into living on the edge as I used to be. Maybe it comes with age. After a little bit of chocolate fondue at the Melting Pot it was all good. It was fun just to hang out with three great friends from college.

After my little excursion though this week has been tainted by the overwhelming feeling of being behind in my schoolwork. So Umpkin is about as exciting as things are getting around here this weekend. Jackie has to study.