The (Great) Pumpkin Festival officially starts at 5pm. So we drove down to the local County Store to park at 4:30pm. This was possible because I worked my backside off at work to get out at 3pm. Yeah, I’m just that good.
As is our custom, (and yes, we do have a custom when it comes to the Pumpkin Festival) we first went down to Food Alley. Not every place was open but most were and we took advantage of that to score ourselves some food and some open tables. Trust me, after 5:30pm it is standing room only, everywhere.
Mrs B stopped at the Fried Tempura vendor and got a fried vegetable platter. It was a lot!
It was also incredibly greasy. Just the way fried food should be!
Last year I had seen a vendor selling Elephant Ears, so this year I was curious enough to find out just what that was.
It turns out Elephant Ears are massive amounts of fried dough. HUGE!
Then we wandered around, looking at various vendors selling brightly colored crap.
Or vendors trying to sneakily separate you from your money for other kinds of brightly colored crap.
It was perfect! Even the obnoxious bands playing all over the place. I believe there were 3 this year. One in the center of the Oval, one off to one side and the third down at the beer garden a street over. There was also some “music” up by the Post Office. So no matter where you went, you were assailed by sight and sound. And jostled by people.
Unless you were me. Because I had a staff and people don’t mess with guys in cloaks who carry a staff as tall as they are.
Then the (Great) Pumpkin rose into the sky and the town was safe for another year!
Thus Sir Bookstooge navigated another deadly, people infested adventure and nobody died. That’s how you know it was good.
The End
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