We went back into Salem, MA tonight for Halloween…






Absolute bedlam. I never seen anything like that. Nutty. Just nutty.

Hello from Winter Island Park in Salem, Massachusetts. 🙂

Genifer’s sister, Alyssa and her fiance, Cleve got married today in a small, very intimate ceremony at City Hall in downtown Salem, Massachusetts…

Congratulations, Cleve and Alyssa! Taken with Instagram. 🙂

Tonight, I carved my first pumpkin in years and years…
Oscar was there to help…



Milan was really interested in what was going on as well…


And here’s my finished pumpkin…



I was pretty happy with how it turned out. Especially for changing designs midstream. 🙂

This afternoon we went to the Cincinnati Zoo to wander around this year’s HallZOOween! It’s another of our October traditions! Remember 2013, 2012 and 2011?



There were a bunch of people and kiddos at the zoo…


Hump Daaaay!

Someone lost their Reds hat…



The red pandas…





































The zoo is always so much fun. We really love it! Especially during HallZOOween!
Click to see all the photos I took at this year’s HallZOOween.

This afternoon we drove out to Lebanon to visit the Iron’s Fruit Farm. It has become almost a yearly tradition (2013 and 2011) to head out Iron’s to pick out some pumpkins, get some fresh apple cider and maybe wander through their giant corn maze…







Here are the pumpkins we picked out…




We didn’t do the corn maze this year…

But the theme was a Salute to Our Military…


We did get some of their delicious homemade donuts and apple cider…

Just look at those apple pies…


It’s always a fun way to spend a fall afternoon visiting the Iron’s Fruit Farm. 🙂

Tonight, we went over to the second to last Rocktober on Fountain Square…


These nice folks from “I and Love and You” were on the Square handing out some free samples of their cat food and dog treats…




There’s just one Rocktober left before the Square becomes an ice skating rink for the next however many months.

All of the flowers have disappeared from Lytle Park except for this sole survivor…

Taken with Instagram. 🙂

It’s been forever and a day since we’ve walked up into Mt. Adams to do anything. Actually according to our Swarm, the last time we checked-in up in Mt. Adams was for our holiday party last December. It was another dreary, grey, overcast Saturday afternoon. What better time to head back up into Mt. Adams?


We were going to have lunch at The Rookwood…

But it was closed for a private event. There’s no shortage of stairs in Mt. Adams…

And it’s good to see the construction isn’t limited to just downtown…

We’ll have to go back and check out Sprout Market & Eatery…

After watching some football at a couple different spots on St. Gregory Street, we ended our evening at City View Tavern…

With their great views of downtown…


It was a pretty fun Saturday afternoon up in Mt. Adams. 🙂

The sun is actually out this morning in downtown Cincinnati! 😀

Taken with Instagram. 🙂