On the weekend of Halloween, Dan and I went to visit my grandparents and Dan's family in Tucson, AZ. We stayed with my grandparents for a night, and viewed both the intriguing rock formations on Mount Lemmon and the nighttime Tucson skyline from A Mountain.
Dan's oldest brother celebrated his 50th birthday with a bash at a Mexican restaurant. We chatted with the Standrings at the posh resort where we all had rooms, and then drove 13 hours with David, Diane, and the nephews to get home.
In October, we went on a neat old train ride with David, Diane, their boys, and Diane's family. We departed from Woodland on a crisp fall morning, and enjoyed hot drinks and cookies from plush chairs. We had the 6- or 7 passenger car train nearly to ourselves, and so we spent most of the ride running from the open-air car behind the engine to the windy caboose. Sharing the train ride with Ian, who LOVES trains, made the trip even more fun! 
The engineer never took us much faster than 5 mph, so it wasn't too windy to really enjoy the countryside and rice fields. Mid-trip, they let us off to browse through a huge pumpkin patch and pick out our own pumpkin. Dan chose a pumpkin as big as my grin after I went through the haystack maze!
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