Pumpkin Picking Fail

With Halloween just a couple of days away we still hadn't carved our pumpkins! Our house has been decorated since the 1st day of October but the customary pumpkins still hadn't found their homes at the front of our house. This was a problem that needed to be fixed. Last month I told you about our pick your own adventure when we visited a farm not too far from where we live and loved it. Well that same farm had posted photos and videos all over social media that showed off their impressive pumpkin patch and it was about time we joined in the fun (before we ran out of time and Halloween passed us by). We reached for boots and drove off in search of orange vegetables that we could somehow use to scare children away and leave more sweets for me come Halloween.

We were excited to search out the perfect pumpkin, get some good photographs and go home to enjoy sensory activity's and carve out faces in their orange flesh. We were excited to embrace a true Halloween tradition. Instead we were met with this...

We were so upset. So upset that we had to force ourselves to enjoy coffee and cake in the fantastic tea room. We were disappointed to have missed out and play victim to what's obviously been a busy half term week for the farm but made the best of the situation. We had a nice hour in the tea room and then chose a selection of already picked squashes to take home and cook. Luckily for us, the supermarkets are all jam packed with pumpkins at this time of year and we still carved our faces in time for halloween. It wasn't the way we wanted to do things but at least all wasn't completely lost. Halloween is growing all the time in the UK and I'm glad that it is. My wife (being American) loves it more than Christmas and I'm excited to be able to enjoy it more and more each year as our children grow older.