Pumpkin Show!

A few weekends ago, we went to the Circleville Pumpkin Show. It's a big annual event in a little town about 45 minutes south of Columbus. It was actually surprisingly crowded (the lone Circleville highway exit was completely overwhelmed, with a huge, backed-up line). Still, though, I thought it was really cute and fun.

The world's biggest pumpkin pie! Compare it with the little girl through the window to get an idea of how big it was. Also, now that I'm posting the picture, I'm just now noticing all the little fingerprints in the near edge...charming.

Pumpkin doughnut (easily the most delicious thing we ate that day, in my opinion)

Pumpkin fudge

Pumpkin ice cream (Michael says it's not his fault he wasn't smiling since I didn't tell him when I was actually taking the picture)

They churned said ice cream using a really noisy tractor motor. You can see the wooden buckets where it got churned on the right.

Pumpkin waffles

Pumpkin burger

Pumpkin dumpling (with some more pumpkin ice cream). Yeah, I know we seem like huge gluttons after all these food pictures. It was awesome, though.

The giant pumpkins! I think it's so funny when they get all slumpy. They look like giant water balloons.

The prettiest pumpkin. It's a third smaller than the biggest ones, but it is very orange and lovely. Look how bloopy the one next to it is! I know it's weird that I find amusement in the bloopiness of giant pumpkins.

An artiste, carving a scene into a giant pumpkin

Endless pumpkins and gourds...

If you grow pumpkins inside a metal mold, they'll take on that shape and get super freaky looking.

The tables of all the pumpkins and gourds went on forever.

I think these were supposed to be the most beautiful pumpkins? A bunch of them had ribbons and the one on top has a crown.

Anyway, it was really fun and I look forward to doing it again next year (although preferably on a weekday when things would be a bit less crowded).