Circleville Pumpkin Show

Back in October, Benj and I traveled about an hour away to Central Ohio’s famous Circleville Pumpkin Show. Now, I learned the hard way that it is not the “pumpkin festival”, but the “pumpkin show”. I was reprimanded by a native of Circleville after saying it wrong. I will never make that mistake again. The Circleville Pumpkin Show has been held in the streets of Circleville since 1903. It is a 4 day event with tons of food stands, rides, fair games, pumpkin displays, contests, and 2 parades every day. We carpooled with our friends the Picketts. Unfortunately, we didn’t pick a very good time to go. It was a little cold when we got there, but by the time we left, if was pouring and we were soaked through and freezing. I’m sure we would have stayed longer if we weren’t so freezing.

In this picture we are standing in front of a huge mural. What you see is only a very small portion of the huge painting.

There were lots of giant pumpkins.

And lots of interesting gourds and pumpkins of all sizes and varieties that you could buy.

We splurged on some Bloomin Potatoes

And of course we splurged on some pumpkin food. We got pumpkin fudge and pumpkin doughnuts.

They had pretty much every kind of pumpkin food there. They had pumpkin: pizza, hot dogs, burgers, cheesecake, ice cream, bread, pie, cookies, cup cakes, taffy, pancakes, waffles, scones, and any thing else you could think of. We would have tried more pumpkin food, but our trip was cut short. It didn’t take long for us to be soaked to the bone from the rain, so we left faster than we normally would have. We did, however, sit through about 15 minutes of the parade in the pouring rain, hoping that it would stop raining. Maybe we will try again next year with better luck.