Easter in Autumn

Strangest thing about the seasons being backwards... you can never really wrap your head around the holidays being in the wrong season. I mean, Easter in Autumn? Weird. Back home, Easter is a spring holiday, associated with new growth and green grass and baby bunnies and chicks (the animal kind) and pink and blue.

Here, Easter is in the Autumn. When the leaves are falling and the air is crisp and it gets dark earlier and earlier. I want to get a new throw for the sofa and make soup and buy a pumpkin. These are definitely not Easter activities. It's odd. I can't explain how odd it is.

I am loving the fall weather though. I made chicken soup with dumplings yesterday. And today we are going to explore an outdoor market. Nice to throw on a sweater for a change, instead of boiling in a tank top.

We are starting to plan some trips for the coming months. A trip home to Canada, and a trip somewhere we haven't been before. If you look at the bottom of this page, you will see that leaves a lot of options. Apparently we have only been to 22% of the world's countries. Hmm. We have a lot of planning to do.

Any suggestions?