Last weekend, Kristian and I drove up to Vermont to go to the Cedar Circle Pumpkin Fest. It was an event mostly geared towards small children, so we fit right in. :p
We drove up the night before and were treated to a delicious dinner of farm grown veggies and then a night on the most uncomfortable futon ever.
Note to self: find out sleeping arrangements before spending money on anymore massages. I went from total relaxation to total pain in one evening. I blame Kristian for taking the less lumpy side of the bed. Also, the side of the bed that didn’t have a small doggy hell bent on nose-licking.
The day of the pumpkin festival was a glorious day. The kind of day that you really shouldn’t have in October. Say what you will about Global Warming. It will probably (definitely) kill us all in a blaze of scorching hot sun and melty polar ice caps, but we’re sure gonna get some nice Fall days out of it! The fall foliage was beautiful, the air was crisp, the sun was shining and there were pumpkins as far as they eye could see.
I think that there is nothing funnier (and cuter) than the sight of a small child trying to pick up a pumpkin that is almost as big as they are. Perhaps I am too easily amused. At any rate, the day provided many opportunities for me to appreciate the awesomeness that is a small child carrying a large pumpkin.
I somehow ended up volunteering myself to help with the face painting at the end of the day. This mostly consisted of kids saying things like “I want a unicorn with a rainbow mane and a princess riding on it with a puppy and a kitten and some fairy dust” and me saying, “Ummm, how about a pumpkin?”
Everyone likes pumpkins, right?
In addition to the pumpkins, I also drew butterflies, bees, flowers, ponies, an acorn, a caterpillar and I transformed some of the kids into a pirate, a couple tigers, several cats and a “princess cat.” What made the princess cat different from the other cats? Well, when I was done painting her face I said, “Look at you, such a pretty princess cat.”
Being a princess is all just a state of mind anyways.
I’m sure that I painted other things as well, but I’ve blocked those misguided attempts at face-painting out of my mind. Those were the kids where the parents said, “wow, what a great sistine chapel!” and the kid couldn’t say “that looks like a smear and you know it!” for fear of having to go home without any pumpkin pie.
Speaking of pumpkin pie… there was pie! And cheesecake. And ice cream. And did I mention that my weight loss has slowed down? I have nooo idea how that happened. Must be a metabolic problem.
I tivo’d the Patriots game and some parent tried to tell me the score and I killed him and put his head on a stake to serve as a warning to others. Then I fell asleep in the car on the way home, woke up when we were almost to our house and made Kristian swear on a whole stack of bibles that he wouldn’t check the internet and tell me what the final score of the game was. Because I fast-forwarded through all of the commercials and half time, the game was over in about seven minutes and forty-six seconds. The Patriots won, by the way.
For more fun photos of a pumpkin-y nature, check out my flickr photo-set here. Be warned, my other sister and her BF gave me a Lensbaby for my birthday and this was my first chance to really play with it. (By the way, you guys rock!) So, many of the photos include blurriness of an “artistic” nature. If you are prone to motion sickness, you have been duly warned.
That looks fun! The Lensbaby looks really cool. Is it hard to use? The demo makes it look like you need about 4 hands.