The Weekend is coming a little early this week. Tommorrow I am taking the day off to go to Clarion. I can't wait spend time with my cousins, Aunt Mary,Uncle Dave, and my grandma. It is Clarion's annual Autumn Leaf Festival. I have been going since I was a child. It is so much fun. The last couple of years I have been going on Friday too. JJ, Aunt Mary and I spend the day uptown at the Craft Festival. It takes up about 8 blocks of main street. We have a blast talking, laughing and most of all eating. There are tons of vendors selling all kinds of delights. My cousin always goes for Vinnie's Pizza. I always mix it up. Some years it is wings other years it is stromboli. On Saturday is the parade. I never tire of the bands, all the little dance and roller skating teams and my personal favorite the Zem Zem's. I love the sites, sounds, the smells. All of it reminds me to take life a little less seriously and to just go out enjoy all that life has to offer. To remember to slow down and to be child like in my delight of life.