The autumn is here. My favorite smell ever is the smell of leaves in the fall. I don't exactly know why that is, but I have a suspicion. When I was a kid, my brother and I used to rake the leaves in the yard into a circle around this tree. It was our "fort" and we would bring our pillows in from our beds and lay beneath the tree surrounded by the leaves. I remember it being so fun. We also used to rake them into a big pile and jump in them too. Probably the reason why I like the smell. You know, they say that the sense of smell is the most nostalgic.
So, back to the autumn. I took a trip on a boat up the Hudson River with my friend Julia from Salt Lake City. She just got a job assignment here for the next six months. It was a leaf looking tour.. Very nice! Took the metro north train up to Tarrytown and then caught the boat. The boat went up to bear mountain, then turned around. There was a pretty interesting tour guide on the trip - telling all about the history of the area: Sing Sing prison, where the term "up the river" came from, George Washington's battles, and all kinds of stuff. I enjoyed it..
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