one little, two little, three little pumpkins

Even though it's becoming cliché to blog about the season around here, I too need time to put in my two cents. I love seasons. I love holidays. I love entertaining. I love life!

On Saturday I attended the Franklin, TN Pumpkin Festival with a few friends. I love the quaintness of Franklin. It reminds me of Williamsburg where I spent many autumn days as a child. Soon after arriving we all admitted that we were there for the food so Meghan and I strolled over to The Cocoa Tree. Five tiny truffles later and we had spent over 10 bucks. I must say they were well worth it. Then, we strolled around speaking to street vendors, learning of their small businesses and making a few purchases. We started to smell the aroma of fried potatoes, chicken, pickles, funnel cakes, corn dogs...You name it, they fried it. Meghan got a plate of fried potatoes and I opted for a bag of fresh kettle corn. We walked over to a tower of painted pumpkins decorated by children. This became a serious discussion of art and between the three of us we had many differing opinions. "I think I was just pushed out of the way by a Transformer!" We vacated the area. We strolled along and admired an enormous lopsided pumpkin. It was at this time that I told the tale of my pumpkin farm visit last year when Cassie decided to lie on a giant pumpkin and was scolded by a scarecrow. We continued down the road and began to browse through tiny specialty stores where I purchased a Christmas gift for my mother and reminisced about British tea parties. We watched a band, dosi-doe'd, admired a wedding party and a child that may have been dressed as a drag queen before heading out. After hitting my last booth I noticed Tyler at a distance most likely walking to his car. Didn't see any point in running across the square so here's that "hello." Do you have any interesting tales from the festival? After leaving the booth we came across a small petting zoo. Everyone else opted to go in, but I opted to keep my hands clean and eat my kettle corn. A car horn sounded and the llama began to panic. I screamed and ran. The only hoofed animal that I fancy is Lightning, MTSU's mascot. Later in the evening I joined some friends at Noshville and ordered far too many pancakes.

Today my morning plans fell through and I sat on the couch watching Hannah Montana for far too long. Later in the evening a few of us decided to visit the Nashville Zoo for their Halloween festivities. I was particularly excited about the "haunted" hayride and was not disappointed. Two displays included a giant draygon, (misspelling intended) one emerging from a swamp and one flying overhead. I was very pleased with the bubble tunnel as well! We visited the pumpkin tree, the Monster Mash dance station and watched children climb in and out of the rear end of a giant draygon/sea horse inflatable. I'm sure pictures will be coming soon. They are well worth viewing. Afterwards we (or, I) decided that Dairy Queen sounded good and spent at least an hour trying to find one that carried pumpkin blizzards. No luck. We then ended up going through the drive-thrus of Taco Bell, Jack-in-the-Box and McDonald's as we all wanted different things. My weekend is over and it's back to work, and back to healthier food, but I'm thoroughly looking forward to the Dance RAWR Dance tour on Tuesday as well as my Halloween movie night on Wednesday. My friend and I are going as "Love Addicts." What will you dress up as this year?