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Today was an eventful day--

I had jury duty for the first time this morning

and I was very hopeful that it would

turn out to be something interesting,

but instead, after sitting in a room

with about 50 other adults

They said our case had been dismissed

and we could all go home.

laaaame.

Mom and Dad were in Houston all day

(and will be there until tomorrow)

so tonight I took the kidlets on a little wilderness adventure

through a little trail that I had noticed leading into the woods

behind our house a few days ago.

It was amaaazingly cool :)

I felt like a little kid, climbing down rocks

and over huge fallen trees in the fading sunlight

and ending up in this gully that led us to

a beautiful secluded little field that

was just bursting with fall color.

I know that Texas doesn't usually do the

colorful fall thing up very big,

but this was seriously gorgeous :)

We ended the night with pizza

and watching Captain America.

(trying to rack up the cool big sister points:)