October pumpkins

I was really craving a nice Ohio October the past few weeks and decided that I had to go to a pumpkin patch. RIGHT NOW. So the weekend came and the weather was nasty and rainy so we decided to wait. Grumpily. Ok I was the only grumpy one. The next weekend was approaching and it was supposed to be yucky and rainy again but Friday looked nice. So we did what had to be done and took off Friday to go down to the patch. I've never been to a pick your own pumpkin place before (that I remember) and it was a lot of fun. There were so many. I just kept tripping around laughing at all the pumpkins. It wasn't hard to choose because they were all really nice. I could've been blindfolded and I still would have picked winners. Well I could have been blindfolded with mittens on, without mittens I could cheat and feel how nice they were. Anyway. It was also a produce farm so we got some fresh fruits and veggies before heading into the corn maze.

I had also never been in a corn maze. I don't really know how that's possible there are a lot in Ohio. I remember seeing one once and it was really small and there was a tower in the middle. It totally ruined the point. So heading to this one I had very low expectations. We were the only ones in it and they put a giant Post-It note in our windshield with the number of people in our party and the time we entered in case they had to come looking for us. It was surprisingly beautiful and fun, a nice gorgeous blue sky day. Adam kept referencing Children of the Corn (which he's probably never even seen). It did get a little creepy because it was so windy we could barely hear ourselves think. So with all the corn whipping you, the rustling of the stalks and the actual wind itself trying to blow my face off it got a little unnerving. Obviously we're living to tell the story so we made it out alive. It took us 30 minutes.

Lazily we didn't think we'd be able to do all the errands we wanted AND drive back to Silverton all in one day so we had to camp for the night (we were about 1.4 hours away from our house). We also went out to dinner at a really delicious Mexican restaurant. I accidentally gorged and didn't leave enough room for s'mores I usually get a tamal and an enchilada with beans and rice on the side. I'm always stuffed and can't finish so every time I vow to only get one main item the next time. Of course I can never decide between the two and then just end of getting both and it starts all over again. This time I decided to get cheese in my enchilada instead of a meat and thought that would make all the difference. It didn't.

Here are some pics from our 'trip'