I'm sitting here, on the last day in October, with all the windows in my house open. They weather reports tell me that its eighty degrees outside, and the sun is shining every now and then. This is freak weather - its supposed to be cold and rainy like it was earlier this week, and like it will be again come Monday. But, for now, I can enjoy mother nature's excellent gift of a warm, sunny weekend.

I started off my weekend with a quick trek out to Charlottesville, VA, with Matt and Julie. We were headed to a charity fundraising auction at UVA Law spondored by the Public Interest Student Association (PILA), which raises money to send law students to do public service internships during the summer. Lizzi received one such grant last summer, and spent the last few months as a chair of this year's auction. So we donned our finery and went out to party! We didn't buy anything at auction, but we did have a really fun time.

Saturday morning we stopped off at the Blue Bird Cafe for some brunch before driving back to DC. I had some sinfully good french toast made with Banana Nut Bread and a strong cup of coffee. The weather had already turned warmer from the night before, so we were able to sit outside on the patio and have the leaves fall on us.

Today I woke up very early, and grabbed some coffee and ran some errands. Thanks to Daylight Savings Time, I got all my tasks done before 11am. ;) I've even got a bowl of candy all prepared for trick-or-treaters tonight. I'm excited to finally live in house so that we'll get lots of kids coming by! Strangely enough, I had trouble finding individually wrapped candies at the store, but I managed to come through.