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Happy Halloween!

            Wishing you a very spooky Halloween!

Evan's Orchard (Lexington- Part III)

Ok, last Lexington post. We read about a small town outside of Lexington called Georgetown and knew we needed to take a look, since we were so close. We found Evan's Orchard. I must admit I was giddy while we were driving up. I had never been to an apple orchard before and I was dreaming about the cider!

As we pulled up this was the first thing we saw...pumpkins as far as the eye could see. (Insert smile)

Yummy!

Keeneland (Lexington-Part II)

Keeneland Race Park was a ton of fun! The horses were beautiful. Savanna came with us to the race and we met up with another friend, Naoko, who is also working with Kentucky Opera. It was a charged atmosphere and sooooo packed. It was a Thursday. Can't imagine what it's like on the weekends. I recommend if you ever go in the future, bring our friend Savanna. She actually knew what was going on, and don't forget your parasol, ladies.

See...lots of fun.

Lexington

Thursday morning we left for Lexington, Kentucky. We took a scenic route which was most definitely worth the time. The landscape is gorgeous here. Along the way we stumbled upon Kentucky's state capitol

building in Frankfurt.

When we made it to Lexington our first stop was The Garden Cafe for lunch. This little gem was featured in Southern Living magazine. It is a house that was converted into an antique and gift shop and the restaurant takes up about three rooms of the house. There were so many cute things for sale. Our friend Savanna lives in Lexington so we were able to spend the day with her. Thanks Savanna! We had a blast!

The food was delicious. If you're ever in Lexington, don't miss this place. I had a pasta salad and for dessert we shared cheese cake with raspberry sauce and lemon geranium pound cake with a lemon glaze.

Is your mouth watering yet? 

Our next stop was Keeneland Race Park. Stayed tuned for parts 2 and possibly 3 of Lexington. We saw so much and took too many great pics to cram into one post.

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Kentucky Opera's second show  The Elixir of Love opened last night. I'm going tomorrow. I can't believe we only have four more weeks here. Time has flown. Gabe's biggest show is next, The Barber of Seville . The opera is going to be semi staged with orchestra in Owensboro, KY. Gabe is playing the title role so he is super pumped about that performance. More details to come :) Wishing you all a fabulous weekend!



Cinci

I've heard a lot of people around here call Cincinnati, Cinci. So, there I go. Acting like a local. Gabe applied to grad school in Cincinnati a few years ago and I secretly hoped it wouldn't work out. I'm not meant to live in snow. I only play in it. After visiting the city I truly loved how it displayed the season. While Gabe was in an audition for Cincinnati Opera, I drove around and found Eden Park. It lived up to it's name.

I also went to the Cincinnati Museum of Art. They had this really cool exhibit of wedding dresses created over the last 200 years. I couldn't take pictures, but Zac Posen made me open my eyes to wedding dresses that were anything but white or ivory. The museum was free! Yah! So pretty too!

Then I drove Gabe back to the park after he was done. He loved it too.

All the pictures on the blog header are from the park too :)

We had a lot of fun!

(I started to add texture to this photo, but ended up going with the original. I thought the colors were perfect. Gabe made fun of me for wanting to take a picture in front of a wall,

but I think he might have to recant.)

Heading to Lexington on Thursday to see a friend. Yah for seeing new places!

something new

Guess what I did?

I Turned this...

Into this...

Yipee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought the material over the summer and the pattern over a year ago. It took me that long to dive in. Now, I might just be hooked :) Disregard that the pattern photo looks quite different. I used a stiff fabric and well... you, know. It was my first time. I have a few more patterns I want to start soon.

Sew skirt from a pattern. Check.