It was Punkin Patch day . . . unfortunately the weather was not cooperating and as soon as Kent and family pulled into the parking area it started to rain. We had been invited to meet K,K & Smith at a pumpkin farm half way between each of our homes. Ger and I arrived a minute before they did and Smith had a totally baffled look on his face when Ger and I jumped into the back seat of his daddy's car. It was as if to say, "Who are these people?" That combined with his just having woken from a nap and a mind numbing ride in the car added to his confusion. K&K have been telling us how much Smith is talking but the little man didn't have a single word for us. When we all got out of the car amidst the hundreds of other pumpkin seeking Floridians, tractors passing us left, right and center, band music playing and rain starting to fall steadily we knew this wasn't going to be the "Perfect afternoon".
Ger and I are used to pumpkin picking crowds from our years of living in the "country" on Long Island. Each weekend in the fall the mobs of "City Folk" would flock to eastern Long Island to one or more of the numerous pumpkin farms. The traffic would be as bad as the summer when the same city folks would flock to our beaches. But at least there were lots of pumpkin farms to choose from. Florida is not quite as pumpkin friendly so the pickings are few and far between. Our pumpkin picking has been limited to Sams Club and Publix. That's why today's adventure sounded like a great idea. We didn't even consider that there is ONE pumpkin farm in the entire county of Palm Beach. I can't imagine what the crowd would have been like had the weather been nice.
As it was we lasted about a half hour. The rain started to increase and Smith and the rest of us just weren't feeling it. So back in our cars we went to find a Friendlies down the road where Smith had a hot fudge sundae all his own and the grown ups had some snacks. We gave out our gifts that we had brought from our trip to Europe and Smith played with the vacuum that one of the waitresses had left out after cleaning up some ones mess.
A good time was had by all!
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