Octoberpalooza!!!!

When I moved to Pittsburgh five years ago, Chris created a fall holiday called “Octoberpalooza”!! We’ve celebrated every year since by doing some sort of fall activity one weekend in October. It’s a fun event and I look forward to it every year. We’ve done a variety of things including camping, Hershey Park, Haunted houses, and even a corn maze. This year I decided I would take charge and plan our weekend! Lucky for me I had earned two free southwest airline tickets that needed to be used before the end of October so now all I had to do was figure out where to go!

I surprised Chris by planning a mini family vacation to Boston this past weekend. The weather was chilly but beautiful, basically just what you would expect from New England in the fall. We spent Saturday in Salem, MA where we watched scary movies and walked around the town. On Sunday, we toured Fenway Park, Harvard and went on a ghost tour. It was a wonderful weekend that went by too fast. We got to spend the weekend with Chris’s cousin Dan and his girlfriend Danielle. It was a great first “family vacation” and I can’t wait to see what we do next year for Octoberpalooza.

Our first Octoberpalooza (2006)