Pumpkin Picking 2021 {10.07.2021}

Hello and happy Thursday friends! I hope your week has been going great so far and you're looking forward to a fun weekend ahead.  Today I wanted to talk about my first ever visit to a pumpkin patch! I do not believe I've been to a pumpkin patch in my lifetime, or if I have, it was when I was very little and do not recall going so I was very excited when a few of my girlfriends were interested in making our way out to pick some pumpkins. 

Originally we were supposed to go to away for the weekend, but the house we were supposed to stay at fell through.  Of course we still wanted to do something together, but we weren't quite sure what do to.  The thought was to go to Frankenmuth and do the Wine & Chocolate tour again, but that didn't seem too exciting to everyone.  We finally got our idea of what to do when one of the girls found out our favorite local bakery had pumpkin cheesecake milkshakes.  We knew that going to get milkshakes was a necessity, so we added pumpkin picking at a local orchard/patch to our agenda.

Ironically, we ended up going to Spicer's to pick our pumpkins.  If you've been around for a while, then you know we get our strawberries from Spicer's every summer with Justin's family.  I've never been to Spicer's for pumpkins, but I was confident that it would be just as fun as when we go for strawberries in the summer.  When we got to Spicer's, they had a full blown party with multiple food trucks, fun for the kiddos and lots of cider and donuts.  We figured that we would head to the pumpkins first then when we got back we'd grab some food.  So we hopped in line to ride the tractor and made our way out to the pumpkin patch. 

It looks like Spicer's uses the same tractors for pumpkins as they do the strawberries; however, the pumpkins are on the opposite side of the property.  Once we got out to the patch we made our way out to start picking out the same pumpkins.  I'll be honest, having never been to a patch before we all thought that it was just a field that they put all the pumpkins in (haha) but once we got out there and started looking around we found the vines for the pumpkins.  We each picked out our pumpkins and threw theme in the wheel barrow provided by Spicer's.  Because I am so extra, I had to pick a large pumpkin plus a few smaller ones.  

Once we had our pumpkins picked out, we made our way back to wait for the tractor ride back.  And we waited, and waited and waited and each tractor that went by was full.  It turns out that the same tractor is used for the pumpkin patch is used for the corn maze and the corn maze is picked up before the patch.  After waiting for about 20 minute, we decided the best decision was to just take our wheelbarrow and lug it back to the front.  What we didn't consider was the 75+ pounds of pumpkins and the bumpy path we had to take back to get there.  In hindsight, we should have just been patient but it sure does make for a hilarious story now. 

After we lugged our pumpkins back to the cars, we stopped for a snack at the food trucks, grabbed some wine/cider from the winery and hung out for a little bit.  After we were sufficiently fed and relaxed, we hopped in our cars and made our way to M Street Bakery.  If you're local to me, then you know how amazing their baked goods/milkshakes are.  We each got our own shakes and hung out in the sunshine before we all made our way home. 

Overall, the day was so much fun and I would go back again.  I think I would maybe not get as many pumpkins (or even large ones) from there because it was a bit difficult to get a ride back and pumpkins are too heavy to lug across an entire field.

Well that is all for today! Hope you're having a great day.

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