Miami Springs Pumpkin Patch

Some co-workers and I decided to visit the Miami Springs Pumpkin Patch. We get an hour and half for lunch to eat, run our errands and go about our shenanigans. So what a better way than to spend a fall lunch hour at a pumpkin patch. I love fall!! I love how it gets so much cooler than the usual 90 degree weather here in South Florida, its so nice when its in the 70's, and breezy. Thank God for cold fronts! I usually don't go anywhere near a pumpkin until the day before Halloween, which is when my Husband and I pick out a pumpkin ourselves for our annual pumpkin carving. We have been carving pumpkins on the 30th of October since we began dating, and it is a tradition I hope to keep throughout our marriage and with our children in the future. Pumpkin carving is also a tradition I have had with my father, but this year is a bit different for one I no longer live at home and for another we will be participating in a pumpkin carving and pumpkin pie contest this Friday at our friends David and Julie's home. I am very excited about the pumpkin carving contest because I have never participated in one, nor have I ever baked a pumpkin pie. So I decided to buy a little pumpkin to begin preparing for the world's best pumpkin pie. That's right my pie will be the best!!! I bought 3 pumkin muffins and a pumpkin for $2.75, not a bad price I'd say, so if your looking for the right pumpkin at the right price check out the Springs Patch. Anyhow I look forward to visiting another pumpkin patch by my home with my husband to pick out our contest pumpkin, and again later next week to pick out our traditional pumpkin, perhaps I will invite my parents and create a new tradition with both them and my husband.

Here are a few pictures of our lunch time shenanigans.

This is the Pumpkin I bought to make my first Pumpkin Pie from scratch.

Wish me some luck, because I am going to need it!