Back to Logan we went on Saturday, the 29th. The occasion was a special invitation by Grandma and Grandpa Elwood for Cal (and Sam, but we figured he was probably too young to really appreciate it and we'd all benefit more if he napped instead) to attend a Halloween Spooktacular concert by the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. It sounded like a super fun assortment of songs and special effects. I think Callie liked it. When I asked her about it, she said it was really loud. (Ha.)
Since the concert started at 2:00, and we didn't have any real plans for the morning, we decided to check out the Pumpkin Chuckin' contest put on by the USU student chapter of ASME. About ten big trebuchets were set up in the field at Elk Ridge Park, right behind my Grandpa Thornley's house. (Yep, this is the same place they do the Pumpkin Walk each year, and the two are connected - they used pumpkins from the displays as ammo in the toss.) We met up with my parents, H&T+G, my grandparents and Kylie, and parked our chairs on the path above the field to watch. What a show! It was pretty dang fun to watch the teams attempt to accurately place their pumpkins 150 feet down the field. A car was parked in the middle and made a perfect target. (And was left with many a pumpkin-sized dent and shattered windows and mirrors when all was said and done.) After that was a candy pumpkin launch for the kids. Callie had fun with that, running onto the field to retrieve her piece of candy that broke out of a pumpkin "pinata" as it splatted against the car. The final contest was for distance, and wow! Those pumpkins really flew! The furthest ones (launched by team name "The Reaper") went nearly off the field, probably 375-400 feet! It was quite the entertaining morning!
bonus videos!
(these were the first launches from each team,
and maybe a couple repeat teams in for good measure? I can't keep track.
But it was all the accuracy test.)
After lunch, Cal went to the concert with my parents, Sam took a nap, and Gregg and I went shopping for jeans. (Party.) Then, we took the kids out to see their great-grandparents and to show off our little shark and cowboy/scarecrow/farmer. (Spoiler alert: it's a good thing we did this small trick-or-treating combined with the basement sweep at Grandma and Grandpa Blanchard's because by the time actual Halloween rolled around, Cal just wanted to stay home and read stories instead of dress up and go out for candy. Ha! Also, it's totally fine by me.)
Evy and family joined us for clam chowder in bread bowls to celebrate her birthday (that day) and my mom's birthday (on Halloween). We finished off the evening with donuts and apple cider (as per tradition).
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Another fun day with the fam celebrating the Halloween season. So many fun things to do at this time of the year!
Oh those pictures of the trick-or-treaters...to cute!
ReplyDeleteThat was a fun day! No autumn celebration is complete without apple cider and donuts!
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