October 25, 2008 
We took littleQ pumpkin picking yesterday at Colonial Spring Farms. Of course, he just had to bring his toy cars with him. (He’s pretty much obsessed with his huge and ever growing car collection, he’s got matchbox, hot wheels, McQueen, a mini stock car track… yikies, well I’ll go into more detail with that another day.)
Pumpkins!
Colonial Spring Farms is great! They have a bunch of different types of fresh apples for sale, and and there’s even a mini petting zoo with some pigs and goats. (..And maybe a few other animals to tell you honestly littleQ wasn’t too keen on taking a walk over to that area because of the smell, so I’m not sure.) There’s a big corn maze for adults, plus a kid’s play area, with this big ‘ol mini silo looking thing with a tube slide. littleQ definitely enjoyed that, but the steps up were pretty high so I went down with him a couple of times. I’m pretty sure I looked ridiculous, but hey.
I guess on the weekends there are hayrides as well, but there weren’t any yesterday. I’m sure Colonial Springs farm is far busier on the weekends, but I still definitely like this place above other pumpkin picking “farms” around here, because it’s got this homey atmosphere, and you don’t have corny freaking people with fake “farm” accents in your face trying to sell you stuff and charging you $10 bucks to walk through tall corn stalks. Oh, and even though it’s just a week till Halloween, they still have some pretty pumpkins left, unlike other farms that would only have rotted, bruised and smashed ones left in the “pumpkin field.” You can tell I’ve had some bad pumpkin picking experiences, huh?
Oh well, I’m happy. We got ourselves a pretty pumpkin that didn’t cost $100, a bottle of sweet long island honey from master beekeeper Fred Munzer, and a tasty candy apple that was chilled and oh-so-delicious.
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