The Smell of November

Ahh yes November is here- a lot of exciting things have been happening... first of all to start off November Mike and I were able to take a trip to Chicago for one of our classes. Yes can you believe it we are in college and we still get to take field trips! I love it. since the field trip was cordinated by our teacher Dr. Daake we were able to skip all of our other classes for the day without getting in trouble. Dr. Daake even gave us money to ride the Metra up to down town Chicago. so Me Annalisa and Mike headed up to the train station at University Park just 20 minutes from Olivet and then we headed to downtown Chicago. It was a beautiful day to be in Chicago, it was sunny, not too windy and not too cold either. we headed to Quiznos for a quick lunch and then met the rest of our group at the World Trade Center of Illinois. which i might add is a very large building. We were instructed to enter at the south east lower entrance with none of us knew where that was. so we decided to walk all the way around the building, (our exercise for the day) until we found the entrance. we had to hand in our ID's so that they knew it was us, and gave us some cards with our names on them. We headed up to the 22nd floor, really high up and went into a small room where the speakers would give their presentations. It was really neat that they made this whole day just for our class. we were the only people their. well we listened to four different people talk about globalization and green marketing and also the best way to market globally. it was interesting especially the lady who spoke last. after she was done Anna looked at me and said "that's who I am going to be when i grow up!" or when I become a "real person" me and Anna always joke about how since we are in college and we don't have real jobs we aren't real people yet. we had a good laugh about that one. since the presentation got over relatively early we headed out in search of the mall, once inside the 4 story mall anna went looking for some make up and mike and I wondered around. i picked up a small pink purse with a large bow on it. I looked at the price and I almost fell over. 1,295 dollars!!!!!!!! My wedding ring double that didn't cost that much!!!!!! All mike said to me was put the purse down and walk away. after looking around for a while we headed out across the street to enjoy some PFchangs ! after some good food , good company , and the great atmosphere of Chicago we headed back to the Merta which we barely made the 5:17 train we came back our apt at 265 Mohawk.


Well the Warm Weather has finally left I think for good, and the Leaves have finally fallen the cold has crept into our house, so we finally decided it was time to turn the heat on, one because I was freezing and two because all of our plants died because its too cold in our house, and three because at night Mike steals the covers. This picture was taken at 6:45 am when i finally decided to get up and capture the evidence of Mike stealing the covers. he was really sleeping here, and the flash woke him up, when he said "what are you doing?" and i said "collecting Evidence!" The following night we turned on the heat tucked the covers into the bed really good and enjoyed a warm good night of sleep!
It seems as though November is really flying by and people all around town already have their Christmas trees, lights, and light up reindeer all ready to go. Wait Hold on a second! we haven't even enjoyed the Turkey yet, or the sweet potatoes along with the cranberries, stuffing and the PUMPKIN PIE! I told Mike we will put our Christmas tree after Thanksgiving but never before we sit down enjoy dinner and praise God for our Families, our Friends, food and warm houses! First we have to thank God for what he did for us, then we can celebrate Christmas with his birth, or at least that's how it should be done.
One last note: last year we experienced a new jewel in town, and yesterday we experienced a new Kroger which is only a block away from our house. so last night at 10:30 Mike and I headed over to Kroger to check out the new store. The lay out was hard to follow, but we had a good time shopping, while listening to Christmas music being played, the lady at the cashier was rather nice, and asked if we were able to find everything okay. but i think everyone in sales asks that kind of question. with some cereal bread milk, and cheese. The everyday essentials we headed out into the clean crisp November air where we found that mike was already catching frost on top of his car. one thing that I highly recommend for any married couple, go grocery together its a lot of fun! Well today turned out to be like any other friday, sleeping in late, working on hmwk and heading off to work in a couple of hours. November is here for sure, but for some reason it feels like its already over! Happy Birthday to Aaron today! and happy birthday to Joe on sunday! Enjoy November while its here, because December seems likes its already taking over.