We all decided on having tailgating type of foods on our Facebook group discussion.
Ben and I got up that morning late like we always do. Since we both get up really early for work during the week this is the only time we get to enjoy sleeping in. Sometimes we sleep in too long. We've been really busy and he has been going to Puyallup on Wednesdays, his day off, to help with the haunted house. We ran out of spare time so he wasn't able to get a pumpkin yet. I asked him which patch he wanted to go to for a pumpkin to bring over to Celeste's. We decided upon Hunter's, which is right down the road from us plus it was on the way.
It was busy!! But we assumed that everyone was trying to get their pumpkins before the Seahawk game later on that day. We found a parking spot and walked towards the entrance. We've never been here before so we had no idea where to go. This was definitely catered more towards children. There were goats you could pet, a pumpkin sling shot, tractor rides, a slide, food, stuff for sale, it was crazy. We just wanted to know where to go get a pumpkin so we asked one of the workers. We grabbed a wheelbarrow and saw Ben being weird with it and smiling. I turned around and there was Isaac and Celeste!
We walked down to the patch together and talked about various things. These pumpkins were on steroids! Their stems were huge! Isaac, Celeste and Ben all picked out a pumpkin and we took it back to the check out.
This place doesn't weigh them but compares their sizes to other pumpkins with prices on them and that's what you end up paying.
We took them to our vehicles and told them we would see them in a bit since we were going to Celeste's house. We stopped at Safeway in Yelm along the way because Ben needed some food. We ended up getting some doughnuts. They were delicious. We got to the house way to early. I thought it started at noon instead of one. Whoops.
We helped them prepare some of the food and everyone started to trickle in. I was really excited to carve my pumpkin. We have this running joke every year about our Facebook group's cover photo being seasonally appropriate again since we only change it after we carve that year's pumpkins.
Nicole made a very tasty Halloween dip, Celeste made her famous jalapeño poppers, I brought cupcakes, Megan made some buffalo cauliflower and we all brought our own drinks. Everything was tasty but we really wanted to get onto carving pumpkins.
I wasn't sure what I wanted to carve so I looked through my phone for various patterns. I found a simple one that wouldn't take very long to carve. Nicole was done really fast so she got bored waiting around for everyone to finish.
Ben took the longest because he couldn't decide and he took a long time carving it. We didn't get to any games because carving took up most of the time and everyone really wanted to get home to watch the Seahawks vs. Cardinals game.
We left just before 5 and Del and Nicole followed us to our house. We still had to pay Del for letting us buy tickets to one of the preseason Seahawks games in September. They stayed for a few minutes while I fumbled with our computer to get the game on. We missed kickoff but we still made it close to the start time. Del and Nicole still had at least a 15 minute drive to her house in Tumwater.
We watched the game. High anxiety. Our offense played like garbage but our defense played phenomenal. We went into overtime and had several chances to win it. There were two missed field goals at the end that cost the game for both teams. We ended up in a 6-6 tie. I sure hoped that did not factor into post season.
Next Adventure: Setting up the Haunted House and Some Geocaching
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