Sleepy Hollow

In the middle of October we took advantage of a long weekend to go up to Sleepy Hollow, New York to enjoy some Halloween spirit! It was freezing and drizzly but we had an amazing time!

The foliage was beautiful! I took tons of pictures on the drive up but decided to spare you on the blog. But here's a little sampling. This is right outside our hotel.

They have annual festivities that we went to. On Friday night was the Great Jack-0-lantern Blaze that we forgot to take our camera to. There were thousands of hand carved jack-o-lanterns all displayed. It was so cool! Here's a picture I found online just to give an example.

On Saturday morning we headed out to another old estate for the Legend festivities. They had storytellers, old activities, and spooky surroundings. And it was beautiful!

Since it was so freezing the kids got to bundle up and they looked so cute! Poor Christian though. I grabbed his ski jacket from last year as we were leaving, even though he swore he wouldn't need a coat. When we got to Sleepy Hollow it was freezing so I gave him his coat, only it was about 2 sizes too small! The sleeves went up to his elbows! So he toughed it out all weekend in just his hoodie. Total man though, he swore he wasn't cold!

That's the old Sleepy Hollow church and cemetery behind us.

These stilts were the hit! Matt and the kids were ready to make some as soon as we got home! And they all did awesome on them!

I declined the offer to try them out. I learned my lesson when I was pregnant with Addie and accepted a ride on Christian's bike pegs. Balance isn't as good when you've got a big belly!

Addie is such an animal lover! She loved seeing the cows, chickens, goats, and cats running around.

Christian and Addie doing some old fashioned bowling.

This was the am story teller. We all loved listening to her spooky stories, even Addie! Can you see her back there on the stage?!

In between the morning and evening activities we walked over to the old cemetery. Matt and the kids had fun scaring each other. It was hard to try to convince the kids to be respectful when Matt was acting like the biggest kid of them all!

We ate at some super cute diners!

That evening after we listened to some more of Sleepy Hollows old legends we walked around and got to meet them. Here is the White Lady of Raven Rock. She froze to death waiting for her beloved and now wanders around calling for him.

We also got to see the Headless Horseman ride and some witches and old soldiers. It was very fun and very cold! And most of our pictures didn't turn out cause I'm still not great at taking pics in the dark!

The next day as we were driving home we decided to take a quick driving tour of Manhattan. Here are some pictures of the Manhattan temple that Lex wants to get married in. We can't wait to go inside! If you didn't know what you were looking for you would probably just drive on by and never notice it!

And there were people driving up in cabs to go to church on the first floors.
Can you imagine?!

Sleepy Hollow was tons of fun and we highly recommend it!