Sandstorm.
Heat.
Car exhaust.
The stench of stale popcorn.
Dust in our eyes. The children’s eyes. Crying, dusty children.
Walking. Bumping. Walking.
Go this way. No, that way. Over here. Let’s go over there. Go this way. Hold my hand. Give me your hand. No, the other hand. Go this way. Don’t touch that. Don’t throw that. Give me your hand.
Walking.
Chugga. Chugga. $36 for a dusty, hot, short train ride that was really a tractor that went in a circle. Chugga Chugga.
Crowds. Music. Crowds.
Where did all these locals come from? When did our town get this big? And why does that large woman NEED two wagons of pumpkins?
Poor, hot, sad ponies with happy, sometimes crying, bouncing children.
SMILE JUSTIN. SIT AND SMILE NOW WHILE I TAKE THIS PICTURE OR WE WILL GO HOME WITHOUT THE PUMPKIN!
Climb up the hay. Climb down the hay. Climb up the hay. Climb down the hay. STOP THROWING THE HAY! Climb down the hay.
Walking. Bumping. Balancing. Two pumpkins. Two children. Zero hands. Crying. Walking. Bumping.
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Kelly 10.23.06 at 5:33 am
he.he.hee… Oh, the pumpkin patch. Good times. Good times.
Jack's Raging Mommy 10.23.06 at 5:42 am
Poor Queenie.
Just think, soon you get to have pumpkin guts all over you as well
Denise 10.23.06 at 5:59 am
All of that misery for a pumpkin? It had better be a self-carving/cleaning pumpkin! Good grief.
Gidge 10.23.06 at 10:28 am
This is why Halloween in the north where it is cold and rainy is still superior to Halloween where it is hot.
We’re supposed to go today or tomorrow……I’ll let you know what sort of hell we experience in the 90 degree here in FLA………
crunchy carpets 10.23.06 at 11:04 am
It’s sooo much fun going places with the kids!
Me..I am doing the pumpkin patch with Adams pre school.
Whoo hoo
Christina 10.23.06 at 12:13 pm
Apparently the pumpkin patch in Cali is not quite the same as the pumpkin patch in the midwest. Sorry it sucked so much!
gunky 10.23.06 at 12:53 pm
sounds like my trip to disneyland.
Chris 10.23.06 at 2:43 pm
Glad you had such a delightful time. he he
Candid Housewife 10.23.06 at 6:05 pm
HA HA, the good ol’ times of going to the pumpkin patch!! Hope you have fun carving them!!
Suebob 10.23.06 at 7:33 pm
Sounds like a blast. Too bad it was so dang hot this weekend.
Miz BoheMia 10.23.06 at 11:21 pm
Ha, ha, haaa!
No wonder I love you sooo!
And no wonder sometimes I just don’t wanna get out of bed! LEAVE ME BE!
Janet 10.24.06 at 4:05 am
Sounds like fun.