NYC, 5 Year Reunion, Halloween

It's been awhile since we've posted, and I have some random things that I've been meaning to post for awhile...so here it is! The month of October was really busy with Halloween (trick or treaters at our new house!) and traveling to Albuquerque, NM, New York City, and Chicago. Thank goodness for no travel plans for November! (Well except for November 30 for a day trip down to San Fran...). Below are some random pics from my travels in October and Halloween!

We bought 2 pumpkins from a pumpkin patch and got some pumpkin carving in. Do you recognize the kitty in the above picture? It's Puss N Boots from Shrek! The pumpkin carving was all Brad. We got a lot of comments from the parents of the trick or treaters...lets just say I think we had the best pumpkin on the block ;)

After my work trip in Albuquerque, NM, I jetted off to Chicago for my 5 year college reunion at Northwestern. I spent most of the weekend with Amanda and Pauline, 2 of my best friends and former roommates from college (and a bridesmaid and maid of honor in our wedding!). We attended the 5 year reunion party at Martini Park in downtown Chicago where we met up with old friends, floor mates, old roommates, etc. It was a wonderful evening and a great time catching up with old friends we haven't seen in 5 years.

We also attended the Northwestern vs. Indiana football game...what an amazing game! We were down 28-3 in the 2nd quarter, and some of us were considering leaving the game. Good thing we stuck it out...somehow the Wildcats pulled back and scored a touchdown within the last 2 minutes of the game to win it 29-28! Last weekend, we also beat Iowa (ranked #4) 17-10 and their first loss of the season. Not bad, NU, not bad...

The weekend before Chicago, I was in NYC. I already had a work trip there, so I decided to stick around for the weekend and hang out with my good friend Thom (third from the left). He was one of my first friends at Northwestern my freshman year. We also met up with Matthias (who was visiting from Spain that weekend) and Rachel. Both are also friends from Northwestern. Matthias and Thom are actually both from Germany - I actually traveled to Nuremburg, Germany one summer during college to stay with Matthias and also did a side trip to Zurich, Switzerland where I hung out with Thom for a few days. So it was great to be able to have a little mini Northwestern reunion in NYC.

Thom took me around NYC and showed me the sites! Here, we're walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.

I guess Northwestern kids flock to NYC. We met up with a couple other old friends from NU - one is from Turkey and the other is from Bahrain (I think). What an international group.

We stopped in Chinatown, which makes Chicago's Chinatown look small =) We had some great food from a restaurant that makes their own noodles. Yum!

I wanted to end this post with a rainbow to brighten your day. Lately since Portland has transitioned to rainy season, we've been getting some really pretty and predominant rainbows. Here's one that we caught as we were driving into the city.