The Pumpkin Patch.

So I should be sleeping for work tonight but I am just not tired! We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday and then out to dinner with some friends and their kiddos and we all had an awesome time. We went to Hunter Farms, the patch that we have gone to for the past 6 years. It’s a really nice farm, they have cattle, the pumpkin patches, a corn maze, and various gardens. When you get there you pay to get in and then you get a tractor hay ride out to the pumpkin patch to pick your pumpkins. After you have them all chosen you load them back up on the hay ride and go back to the main barn. This year has been really weird for crops and such and we found that most of the pumpkins that were left in the fields were already rotten. But we went walking around looking anyway and found a couple good little ones to take home but we found our two big pumpkins right at the beginning of the field where they put a bunch of the good ones that they cut already and drug out of the field.

After we returned to the barn to pay for the pumpkins there is a bunch of animals to look at. Sheep, rabbits, chickens, pigs and even a creepy looking emu. We walked all through the animals and then the kids played in the hay maze. They loved going down the slide. 

Ron and I went to go look at the general store for some fresh produce and found huge tomatoes, a huge head of cauliflower, and yummy white corn. They were also having a salsa tasting while we were there and of course we bought two jars. It was really good homemade salsa. 

By now we are all starving so the plan was to head to Smokin Mo’s for lunch. Smokin Mo’s is this amazing BBQ place that we love to go to in Shelton and it was only 12 miles away from the patch so uh yeah we are totally going!! My favorite thing about Smokin Mo’s is that the meat is sauce-less so you get to choose how much and what kinds you want. I am not a fan of BBQ that is smothered in so much sauce that you don’t taste any of the flavor of the actual meat itself and the flavor at Mo’s is amazing! 

 All in all it was a great day, we left the restaurant stuffed and loaded down with pumpkins to carve.