Fall Apple Festival

Well I must admit that fall out here in Virginie sure is perty. This is the view from our patio. I miss San Diego County an awful lot, but this time of year is really nice here. Not too cold, no snow yet, and beautiful trees all over. We went to an Apple Festival this weekend and had a lot of fun. It was about twenty miles out of town, and it is amazing how quick it turns into real country folk when you leave Charlottesville. (Professor Choi, my contracts professor, told me that he drove about twenty miles out once and when he went into a store the guy working there walked up to him and asked if he knew Kung Fu.) We really had fun. There was a guy playing a banjo and singing fun songs like "Turkey in the Straw." I actually had never heard that song before and I thought it was so fun that at certain parts the whole crowd would chime in and sing along. I don't think my hometown has any folk songs that everybody knows, except maybe "Because I Got High" by Afroman. Later on, some more people came and joined him in music and merriment making.
There were a lot of fun people and fun things to eat like goat burgers and brunswick stew. There was an old lady there selling jars of stuff she had made herself. We asked about her pickled peaches and she looked at us and said, "You're not from the South are you?" So we bought a jar to further our assimilation. We'll let you know how they taste. They were also stirring up big batches of apple butter there. Yummy.
Finally, we wanted to show you that Sabrina has started responding to "smile" requests when we take pictures. Okay it only worked one time, but it was cute. Hopefully she'll keep it up.