October Catch Up, Part 4

Certainly feels like there was more than 31 days in October this year ...

Fortunately the rest of October was mercifully quiet without a whole lot going on.

We did have tickets for the baseball playoffs for the Thursday night of the week we returned home however. For those that don't follow the American baseball too closely, all of the playoff match-ups are decided by either a best-of-5 or a best-of-7 scenario. Which means the last couple of games in that scenario may or may not be played if one of the teams sweeps the other for example. As it turns out, the baseball gods smiled on us and the Angels and the Yankees won the right number of games each to force a Game 5, which is the one we had tickets for. The upside was that it was a pretty good game, probably the game that the Angels played their best in, and the Angels did win in the end. However, they then went back to New York and lost the series and were knocked out of the playoffs.

Here's a random photo of Callum from the 25th. I only include it because the box he is playing in is a beer carton, Lagunitas Maximus to be precise, and it is a very good beer! :)

And here is the sunset from our house from the 27th which had some great colors.


For Halloween this year, we took Callum to Main Street in Huntington Beach where they were having a family friendly festival so the younger kids could do the trick-or-treat thing without hitting stranger's houses etc. Callum was too young last year to tackle trick-or-treating and we didn't really prep him for it this year, we just kind of set him loose and waited for him to figure it out. As you could probably have predicted, after we visited the first couple of stores and people dropped candy in his bag, he was already holding his bag up in the air in expectation by the 3rd or 4th store, but he did mostly maintain his manners and said Thankyou for each piece he received. We had to empty his bag a couple of times as it got too full, which we will attribute to the insane cuteness of his costume.



One of the displays at the festival was by the Huntington Beach Police Department, so Callum got to sit in the back of one of their cruisers. Hopefully this is the last time we see him in the back of a police car!


And that, thankfully, is October all wrapped up!