it's an Allie Day: Double Feature- Children's Museum and Color Run!

Happy Election Day. Can you believe it is already November 6th? That means Harps is almost 14 months old (craziness!), Will is redeploying in 6, 7, 8 (?) weeks!!, the Holiday season of visitors has officially begun, and finally the political ads are over. I can't not stand how negative politics have become... although only 25, and in the beginning of my voting life, I hate the year of continually negativity. I have Facebook friends from Connecticut, University of Wisconsin, and the military (aka both parties strongly represented) and today I was mortified by people's status! You have every right to state your opinion and should (it is a right!) but commenting on the race of a candidate or their religion or whatever crazy thing people came up with... you better Google some solid facts on their campaign platforms and post those. It is so embarrassing for our generation and frankly, really unconvincing. We need to be better than that for future generations; we need to set the example. Okay, onward we go! The election season is over and Harps and I had a fantastic day at the Honolulu Children's Museum.

Harps is the perfect age for the Children's Museum. They have different room that cater to ages 0-10 and three stories to explore! We were lucky enough to meet two of Harp's favorite friends there. Harps loved the rainforest room that was very tot friendly but also adored the "bigger" kids little fake town section. I have a feeling we have many more trips in our future!

(Hi Ray!)

(this is her newest face, she is trying to act very "strong" and move the display in the pineapple farm)

(hi Teddy!)

and this Saturday we did the Color Run. The Color Run is a 5k were you run through different "colors"'; basically volunteers throw colors at you and at the end you are basically a color mess. Fun right? No worries, the colors are just cornstarch and completely non toxic (although my hair has a slight orange tint still, ugh!). Harps joined me with a rain cover and she seemed to have tons of fun. Honestly, I would say it is a one time experience.... very messy but fun.