today lauren (the roommate) and i went on our long-awaited visit to the pumpkin patch. our previous plans had been dashed by cold and bad weather, but today was the perfect day - blue skies and unseasonably warm.the pumpkin patch, simply known as 'the pumpkin patch', was a short drive away, just a few miles down 64. we were not disappointed by their selection. a huge farm, they had gourds in every size, shape, and color, rows of vegetables, all types of corn and produce, and hay bales.
we were invited to take a wagon or wheelbarrow over to the patch to select our pumpkins.
i couldn't capture in a picture how big the place was, but suffice to say, you couldn't see it all from one point. we scouted all over for the perfect pumpkin. they had all kinds, some were still growing, some were bumpy, most had no stems. but eventually we selected our pumpkins. oh, and there were grasshoppers everywhere! those things can jump about four feet in the air!
we wheeled (wheelbarrowed?) our pumpkins back to the produce tent and picked up some smaller gourds for fun. the pumpkins turned out to be a steal at only 50 cents a pound! unfortunately there weren't enough people for a hayride, but we were anxious to get home anyway.once there, we started scooping and carving. we used the designs you can buy in the little booklets with the tools. lauren's was a little more labor intensive.. mine was a bit goofier (can you tell whose was whose??) once we finished we lit them up and took them out on the balcony for the whole boulevard to see.
all in all a lovely fall day that almost made up for my (lack of) halloween last year. US, 1. france, 0.
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