October just isn’t complete without a trip to the pumpkin patch. This one was not as exciting as the ones we became accustomed to in Utah, but it was a lot less crowded!! They have them all over around here, I just picked this one cause it was the closest and easiest to get to. As you can see it was a gorgeous day and a very picturesque outing. First we rode around the farm on a trailer hooked up to a tractor.
Then we took a bunch of pictures in these things:
Then we hauled our pumpkins over to the checkout to be weighed and to pay.
$56 was our total– $0.49 /lb. — ouch. The rule was that you had to be able to carry it in order to get it, guess they’re getting stronger. And how do you tell your kids that we’re going to leave their well chosen pumpkins for replacements from the grocery store? Plus it’s the experience– right?!! Fun day anyway, we’re ahead of the curve– last year we played at CornBelly’s for a field trip, but didn’t buy pumpkins there, and we were driving all over town looking for pumpkins on the day before Halloween, most everybody was sold out. This year, we actually did it the weekend before Halloween and we’ll carve them sometime this week. Awesome!!
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