When fall first struck, and I say struck, because there are certain signs that the colder times are a coming. Girls break out their Ugg boots and skirts, wearing leggings as pants becomes socially acceptable, and Starbucks starts brewing their PSL (which I find horrendous.) Anyways...
It's FALL, Y'ALL!
I saw that saying written on a chalkboard, and thought it was just too cute and clever, and then fall hit. In North Carolina. And I realized that this saying might as well be "bless her heart" because it's everywhere here. On signs, on garden flags, on cards, and I swear I saw an old woman with one of those wicked sweet vests with it embroidered on the back!
Seeing as how this is my first fall, I'll be all fall y'alled out, and just go with it! Here is where I have been lately. In between lesson plans, spending time in a classroom, and working like crazy, I've fit in some fun.
This fall, I went to my first Mumfest! Mumfest is an adorable festival they have in Downtown New Bern with rides, food, your basic fair stuff. I went with some friends on the last day, and it was such a cute little festival.
That picture below was actually taken in a graveyard inside of a church. There is the most beautiful church in DTNB that has a cemetery, and you'd think that people didn't even know it. To the left of me in this picture is a playground including a swing set, with a headstone about 8 feet away. Well on this day, it was a pumpkin patch with some of the largest pumpkins I've ever seen.
It started out as a beautiful day. The festival is right in historic NB, and I just love this Craven County Courthouse. They've been filming that show on Fox, Sleepy Hollow, here, and this is one of the buildings featured on the show.
It rained as we were leaving and we ended up walking right by one of my favorite homes.
We also went to the Seafood Festival in Morehead City to get our fat kid eating on. I wanted a funnel cake, and badly. I ended up eating: shrimp tacos, tasti-chips, and an entire funnel cake. It was amazing. I had a fun with my friends, and of course, I went with my bestie, Dustin.
In my neighborhood.
More of New Bern
My husband was gone for 2 full months, all of September & October, so when he came home, we went out to do some exploring, and ended up at the Pepsi Store in NB. NB is known for Pepsi, so I couldn't believe we've never had a glass bottle Pepsi from there before. I'm acttuallllyyy a coke lover, but from the bottle, it was delicious!
More of Downtown New Bern
We also celebrated the Marine Corps Birthday!
The day after the ball, we went to the next base over because I needed some new pants for work. We took some backroads way to get there, and there were tons of horses on these large empty properties, with no homes on them. On the way home, I wanted to go back that way, and screamed at my husband to stop when I saw a bunch of horses and what looked like no fence.
The fence was two pieces of wire, about 4 feet away from each other, so I crouched down and went right onto someone's property. I've never done more trespassing than in North Carolina, and people here probably have more guns than those in California. Anyways, I walked out and this white horse was probably about 30 feet away just looked at me. I held my hand out, and it came right on over to me, and put his nose in my hand. I think a lot of people must do what I did, because that horse was looking for a carrot. He was a sweet horse and let me pet him until he wandered away. (Sidenote, my husband was too afraid to go near it.)
I have two weeks left of school, so hopefully I'll get some time in for crafts and more updates!
