Fall Fun!!/秋行楽

Weekend blogger extraordinaire Daddy Klein back at your service...Today our church group trip to the Catskills was canceled due to the rain, but our branch of the phone tree must have fallen off because we didn't get the message so at 8am this morning we hit the road for the incredibly scenic drive up the Taconic Parkway to Fishkill Farms!! Funnily enough, last night we were kind of not looking forward to going due to the weather and how tired we were, but we woke up this morning feeling good and saw that the rain hadn't started so off we went.
週末編集者のデイブから報告...今日は教会の人達とフィッシュキルと言う所にある農場に行く予定だったんだけど天気が悪いせいで中止になってしまいました。でもその連絡がクライン家に届かなかったため朝８時に予定通り出発。色が変わり始めた紅葉を見ながら１時間半ぐらいドライブした後到着。

The best part of the day was truly the drive and that isn't because the rest of the day was so bad, it was just that the drive was that nice with the peak of fall foliage season hitting the area...at the farm we found out that all the pumpkins had been picked weeks ago and our favorite kinds of apples were already done picking as well, so I got a very delicious chocolate milk, a few Golden Delicious apples from the bin and we snapped a couple of pictures so we could prove to our church friends that we had actually made the trip :-)...
朝のうちはまだ雨もあんまり降ってなかったから風景を楽しみながらドライブ。農場では買うつもりだったハロウィーン用のかぼちゃが全部なくなっていたから林檎を５、６個買いました。教会の人達に見せる証拠の写真もちゃんと撮っておいたよ：）

After the brief stop at Fishkill Farms we headed back down the Taconic Parkway to Stew Leonards in Yonkers where all three of us thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Here there was no shortage of pumpkins as each family member got to choose one.
農場に立ち寄った後家に帰る途中にストゥレナードって言うお店に寄って楽しむ事に...ここではたくさんのかぼちゃが山盛り！一人１っ個ずつ買う事に。

On the way out Anna was going to take a picture of just Madison and I, but a nice lady swooped by and took the picture for us so we could all be in the picture just as it started to rain again. Madison and I boogied for the car as she began to get pelted with her first real raindrops and had the biggest grin on her face once we got her into the car...looks like we may have to play in the rain more often.
お店から出て駐車場に向かっている時に凄い大きなかぼちゃの前で写真をとる事に、アンナがマディソンと僕だけを撮ろうとしていたら通りかかったおばあさんが家族写真を撮ってくれるって言ったのでお願いする事に...もう少しで車に着く時にいきなり雨が降って来たから慌ててダッシュ！マディソンは嫌がるかと思ったら全然反対で大喜び：）変な子...今度から雨の降っている時に外に行かなきゃいけないのかな〜？

In the end, we were so happy we had gotten up and going on this rainy fall day instead of sleeping the whole thing away, which I am also very good at...crazily enough (I like making adjectives adverbs) the rain would stop while we visited each place today and then start pouring as we got in the car to leave...it was very nice of it to cooperate in that manner...thank you rain, we had a lovely time!!
結果的に天気は少し悪かったけど家で一日中ゴロゴロしてる(僕得意です!)より出かける事にして良かったです。しかも外に出ている時は雨が止んで車に乗る途端にいつも雨が降り始めるとクライン家の予定に合わせてくれた雨さん、どうもありがとう！！