elfs | Picking the pumpkin.

Doing family stuff.

In the annual tradition of American families everywhere, we drove out to the farm country just south of Seattle and picked our pumpkins for the annual sacrifice. Soon, we found ourselves at Carpinito farms, where Yamaraashi-chan insisted on pulling the cart even though it was much too heavy for her. After Omaha had bought some kettle corn, we walked out into the fields and started to look for the perfect pumpkin.

After picking our three pumpkins, the girls wanted to do the corn maze. There were two, one with the suggestive outline of a pterodactyl, the other a tyrannosaurus rex. We did the T-Rex. Inside there are six stations where you can punch a hole into the map you're given, so you can acknowledge that you've been to all six. We got lost at one point and ended up in the dinosaur's toes before finding out way back to the backridge where post #2 was, so we did them out of order. Kouryou-chan was great about finding our way through the maze, but Yamaraashi-chan couldn't get into the spirit of it. "Why do you look at the map?" she said. "That's no fun." I don't think she quite got the point, or she had a different one from the rest of us.