Circleville Pumpkin Show

Every year on the third weekend in October, a little town in Ohio named Circleville has a big "pumpkin show."  The quaint little main streets are shut down and filled with everything pumpkin, as well as carnival games and rides, craft and trade booths, and food stands of every kind.  By "everything pumpkin" I mean huge areas filled with every kind of pumpkin you could ever imagine, tons of pumpkin food, as well as contests for the largest pumpkins, and the world's largest pumpkin pie (which, sadly I didn't get a picture of, but is about the size of a small car!).

While there is typical fair food, everything has pumpkin mixed in: pumpkin burgers, pumpkin pizza, pumpkin soda pop, corn dogs with pumpkin batter, pumpkin donuts, pumpkin rolls, pumpkin pie, pumpkin fudge, pumpkin waffles and pancakes, and some more that I'm sure I'm missing.  The awesome part was that a lot of the pumpkin things were smaller pieces that were sold for cheap, which made it so that we were able to try a lot of different things without wasting tons of money.  We tried the pumpkin donuts, pumpkin roll, pumpkin pie, pumpkin pizza, pumpkin waffle, and pumpkin soda pop.  I want so badly to be a fan of pumpkin since it's such a fall staple, and fall is my favorite season, but this adventure confirmed that I really don't like it.  The pizza and pop pushed me over the edge.  I only like pumpkin if it's baked into something and smothered with cream cheese frosting, although I will admit that the pumpkin donuts were the best thing there and SO good.  Ryan, however, likes pumpkin a bit more than I do.  Also, Lucy seemed to be a fan too, as proven in these pictures. :)

All Saturday afternoon there was a combination of really bright sun and dark puffy clouds, and a temperature that definitely called for boots, sweaters, and coats.  Since Circleville is an older town, all of the trees are really big and the leaves were at their peak colors, which were a perfect complement to the older structure of the buildings.  I felt like I was walking around in a fall setting of a movie (minus the trashy fair stuff).  Also, the town goes a little nuts with the fall and pumpkin decorations.

And a zonked out child on the way home is what I call a successful outing. :)

This was a perfect fall activity for a perfect fall day.  We even made it home just in time to watch the BYU vs. Notre Dame game, which made Ryan a happy camper (too bad they lost).