October fest

Though I've never been a big fan of halloween always trying to scrounge up some hand-me-down costumes and putting something together generally that morning before school just to show up and see all my friends in their home made costumes--I have always liked to see how clever other people can be. I did wear orange this year in spirit of the season though. But it worked, because luckily halloween is an American holliday so no one at work showed up in a better costume than me this year ;) But I do bet Ryan probably had the greatest one at his office!!

I didn't get nearly as much candy as the kids since my only stop was their houses to say hi--but they were all very generous in sharing! I got a little glimpse of all the kids minus Alex because he was at a party. Even though they had been out trick-or-treating and were worn out by this point, they were still cute as ever!

Return to Sender

So my friend Monica and I at work decided to try an experiement one day when we reached the end of our book of stamps. We wanted to use that Giant replica of the stamp that they put on the front of the book of stamps, and we glued it to an envelope. We put my name and address as the recipient, and her's as the return address and mailed it from work to see what would happen. Then we each wrote a note to each other to put in it to see where it ended up. Well, a few days later, it arrived at Monica's address! They had ripped off the stamp and stamped their own "return for postage" in it's place. Little did they know...we fooled that mail system! They actaully mailed it for us with no postage!!


Well, it's not quite as clever as some of Jim's office ideas, but hey, it killed a couple of minutes in the day for us! ;)

Here we are before and after...

On another note, Also at work, sometimes the asians like to have what they call a tea party where they order their famous boboli tea. I'm not a big fan normaly, but since it is the season, they actaully have pumpkin spice and is very good! The little boboli's are big black pearls that taste just like tapioca. So we took ours out to the little pond on our lunch break and drank away! This is a rare but fun occasion as it also takes away from the monotany of work. Also notice those ducks. They are the most unscared ducks I have ever seen! They beg worse than dogs! Every time someone is outside trying to eat their lunch, these ducks come right up under them trying to get a little somthin! It's a little frightening sometimes! They follow us like everyday and we've never even fed them! Crazy ducks! Maybe it's cuz we tease them and throw accorns trying to get them away....