End of the world fun (10/21/11)

It's Tom's birthday later this month so I got him tickets to go see The Band Perry at the Arizona State fair. We went a little early and played around, went on some rides, watched some turkeys race around a track, and I volunteered to do an imitation of a turkey (I will say i'm pretty awesome at imitating a turkey... ) ate a corn dog, you know the usual fair stuff. Finally at 7 the concert started, I love country concerts you get all sorts of people, white trash folks, slutty girls and can't forget my favorite, drunk folks. It was a fun full day hanging out and celebrating with the birthday boy.

Once Groupon a time.... I know, I know, bad joke, but I had to....

Anyways... We got groupon tickets to go to our favorite pumpkin patch, Vertuccio Farms. So we went there this last weenend. They had added some fun stuff since last year. But by far the most time consuming portion of our evening was the upgraded corn maze. We thought it was going to be like last year where you walk around and find clues throughout the maze, which it was... but with a twist. At the entrance there was one of the little pedistals that you are supposed to find and we thought "why is this out here?" Come to find out 20 min later when we were lost that that pedestal had a MAP ON IT!!!! This was also after we had called Nikki to call the cops to come save us cause we were lost so bad. Well, after we finally found the first clue we realized that there was a map, so from there on out we knew where to go. I took a picture of the map so Tom could lead us where to go, cause I have no clue how to read a map. (typical woman, says Tom) It took us 45 more minutes to go through the whole maze and get all the clues. The maze is 10 acres and the correct trail is 2.9 miles long. We figure we walked a bit over 3 miles and made out in the corn 6 times... We'll be sure to go again next year!

children of the corn

Starting to Fall

This weekend officially marked the beginning of Fall.  We had General Conference AND we made some Clam Chowder!!!!  It was delicious.  Don't believe me?  Take a look for yourself.

We got the recipe from the San Diego Temple.  It it probably the best clam chowder in the world.  Yes, even better than Disneyland....  What I don't understand is how so many people will not eat clam chowder just because it has clams in it.  You can't even taste them.  It is pretty much just potato soup with some chunks of meat in there every once in awhile.  Good thing I like it, cause the Temple recipe makes a TON of soup, we even halved it, but I will still be eating this for a week.

Here is a crappy version of the Simpsons Classic involving our favorite soup

Until next time!!!!!


 Stay Classy San Diego  WORLD!!!!