Canadian Pie

I've been whinging about how summer's over and how it's getting cold, all the while secretly looking forward to a winter of skating and skiing fun. Today was an exception to some recent drab, overcast and cold days, a perfect autumn day with pure blue skies, golden sunshine and hardy a breathe of wind. It might be less than 10 degrees but when you're in the sun it's T-shirt weather.Jo and the kids had been invited to go apple picking at Chudleigh's Orchard in Milton by Aleks, one of her tennis buddies, and I tagged along for the ride. The kids had a ball riding around on the back of a tractor which stopped every so often to drop people at various points around a huge orchard, each stop offering a different apple variety. We picked some apples, but let's face it there more excitement in a haystack maze, petting zoo and huge playground that there is in simple manual labour.Safe to say that the kids had some fun and hopefully enough autumn air to tire them out a little, they have a long sit in the car tomorrow on the way to Boston. The kids should be pulling bits of hay out of their clothes, hair, ears etc for the next few days. We ended up quite a crowd with Aleks' friend Kim also along for the ride and Victoria and Brenden topping us off at a team of 12.It's about 900k's to Boston, similar to a Melbourne-Sydney trip, and we hope to leave around 5am to avoid a hold up at the border as we need to renew our US visas. I was a little worried a few weeks ago that autumn was coming quickly and that by the time we set off on our holiday all the leaves would be gone. But I think we'll be fine and with the weather looking like it's going to stay good into next week, at least until we leave the witches in Salem, we're looking forward to seeing Maine in all it's Fall glory. With luck we might post a few entries while we're on the road over the next two weeks so continue to stay tuned guys, cheers.

Andy, out.