Fall weekend (ish)

Besides missing Mike and Jovie, the other sad thing for me about the Africa trip was missing two weeks of my favorite season!  So when I got back, we did a couple things to make up for it.

On Sunday afternoon (I got back Sunday morning), we went to the church really close to us that sells pumpkins, and we let Jovie pick one out.

 She preferred waving to people over actually looking at pumpkins

 She did like to pick up the mini pumpkins

On Monday, Mike had to work, and I took the day off, so I took Jovie to Great Falls for a Mommy and Jovie day.  It was a lot of work, hiking around with her by myself, but it was really fun!  And a beautiful day.

My intention was to go right to the Billy Goat trail, but the towpath around it is closed for construction, so we took the detour path.  Not bad, huh?

 When we got to the towpath, we took the trail down to the river.

 And then we had our picnic!

 Birds

 Eating

 Climbing around after lunch

 Then we walked up to Great Falls.

 A really nice lady offered to take our picture (while Jovie waved at everyone around)

 We took a little bit of the Billy Goat Trail, and Jovie fell asleep, so we walked back.  By we, I mean I carried her sleeping in the backpack :).

After our day at Great Falls, we met with Jeff who was in town for a conference and had dinner with him.  He hung out for a bit at our house before, and played with Jovie and taught her to wink, which is really a hard blink with both eyes.  So cute!  It was a really great couple of days to ease back in to being home.