It’s the “not-so” Great Pumpkin!
Being a beautiful Sunday, I planned on taking my son, CJ out to pick pumpkins in a pumkin patch. He has never actually picked pumpkins, except for the ones you can ‘pick’ in the grocery store. This was also my first experience. There is a nice place not to far from the house that seemed to be the perfect place. Of course, being only three weeks away from Halloween the place was packed. The place was amazing they offered everything from ‘pre-picked’ pumpkins, apple picking, a petting zoo to a hayride. We paid the $1 per person for the hayride to take us to the pumpkin patch. The place was interesting. I’ve never been in a pumpkin patch before, but CJ was excited about it.
Every pumpkin he saw in there he wanted to pick – even the green ones! Of course, I explained to him that you need to look for one that’s orange and predominately round with no big cuts or gouges in it. After about 15 minutes he found one that seemed to weigh about the same as he does. He was happy.
I didn’t want to be lugging that heavy orb around the place so I decided to go and pay for it. Of course, since the parking lot was full that also meant that the lines were also long. It took me 20 minutes just to get to the register to pay for this beast. That’s longer than it took CJ to pick it out! The place we went to charges for pumpkins by the pound and I don’t know how much that was, but the grand total for this one pumpkin was $12.84! I can’t believe that they charge that much for a pumpkin! This is a place that has them in the field. I went out to the patch (which I paid a $1 to get there), I picked the pumpkin (they didn’t), and I walked it to the register, stood in line for a third of an hour and they charge me that much!
The moral of this story is: If you want the experience of picking your pumpkins go to a pumpkin patch, look around, and take all the pictures you want. But, in the end, you’ll end up at Wal-Mart paying a lot less for the exact same thing!
(Final note: My son doesn’t know why I want to “cut up” the pumpkin. He knows what a jack-o-latern is.)
He is so cute…We don’t have pumpkin patches in Tampa I don’t think.
No, I don’t think we did in Tampa. I think that they had pre-picked pumpkin areas, but usually they were churches and whatnot. And those were expensive too. I want the experience, but not the price!