Meanwhile, in Autumn...

While it seems like it's turning into winter rather quick, I have actively been neglecting you readers of my adventures in the States. One adventure I hope to share with you now is that of solid rain, yes, you heard right. Leaves, Tons of leaves. It's Fall, or as I mentioned earlier probably was Fall until yesterday, and the trees were turning and the leaves were falling. There's several stories to this, but first...

As you can see, I was astonished to find the trees, otherwise apparently green, change to a colour as bright as an apple. I mean, these pictures don't even do them justice. I swear, had I not been wearing sunglasses I would have probably gone blind. Or at least colour blind. God, being colour blind would suck in fall, all trees looking grey or something... sad. 

Story number one, related to these pictures. We, two friends and I, went on a trip up north to Chicago. We were driving so on the way we thought, why not stop at everything we can possibly find! First stop, some memorial, but we couldn't find it so: Mission failed. Mission 2: Garden! That sounds nice, and how could that possibly go wrong. It is called the Lincoln Memorial Garden, near Springfield IL, where everything somehow is themed around Lincoln. Infatuation big time. Mission 2: Success, so worth it. 

The floor was covered by so many leaves I'm pretty sure we were walking on a two foot high carpet of them. Because at one point I missed the "carpet of leaves" and stepped in mud. Not nice. I had to get back on the path of leaves which meant my shoe turned into, well, leaves... 

Naturally with so many leaves on the floor we started taking pictures of us throwing them up in the air. And I'm guessing that's how an entire huge leaf got into my shoe, somehow snuck in there without me noticing, and stayed there until we got to the car when I remembered I didn't put crackers in my shoe, so why am I sounding all crispy?