halloween this year was pretty laid back. christopher and i decided this is not our holiday at this time in our lives. we're currently rejects among our california friends. our gsb friends were mostly partying (we don't drink) and our church friends were taking their kids trick or treating (we don't have kids) so we had the wonderful opportunity to celebrate as just the two of us!
after the ward halloween party (delicious chili and desserts including INCREDIBLE apple pie - gosh i need to learn to cook wonderful things) we headed to mountain view, per my request, to do some much needed grocery shopping at the dreaded walmart where we saw even more freaks than usual. unfortunately, i think i was one of them. i thought i was dressing festively but while i was crossing the crosswalk to enter walmart, i got a shout out from a ghetto black man in a low riding car yelling to me something about an orange shirt. you tell me, did i elicit this shoutout?
anyways, while we were in mountain view, we stopped at a california pumpkin patch...
check out the selection! we strategically showed up about three minutes before they closed and christopher worked his negotiating skills. he wasn't able to get us a pumpkin for free (maybe he'll be able to do that after he graduates?) but he got us a good sized pumpkin (originally $15) for $3 which i thought was fantastic. and it was very pretty and nicely shaped too.
the other big one by his feet was our runner up.
to their credit, they had a real tractor for hayrides...
and a bunch of random games and activites set up for kids. which i imagine was all a big hit during the day. i want take this time to thank my friend cherie (if she even reads this blog) for warning me about california pumpkin patches. she totally called it with the fenced in patch of hay covered parking lot etc.
so then we (chris) carved the pumpkin...
with such precision...
christopher wouldn't pose for any pictures but at least he let me take some!
look how well it's cleaned out!
and this is 100% of what came out! i was disappointed not to get more seeds. i thought we would for sure get lots of seeds and pumpkin innards... boy was i wrong!
anyways, hope you had a great halloween!!!
ps- this is what a GEORGIA pumpkin patch looks like... burt's pumpkin patch to be exact...
I love your halloween night! Very festive. We were so lame. We didn't even carve pumpkins this year. The first year we have a child old enough to realize the joy of a carved pumpkin and we opted not to. So props to you for carving a pumpkin.
ReplyDeleteDid you cook the seeds and eat them? I've only done that once but they were gooooood.
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