We decided to carve a pumpkin this year. We found some great Carl Sagan Templates here. Apparently Sagan is a popular pumpkin choice. I guess a scientist would be a pretty spooky idea for a Jack'O Lantern to some. You know, using evidence to support ideas and all. The carving was not as difficult as it seems but I found that if you just worked and 8 hour shift lifting heavy things then it is not a good idea to hunch over a pumpkin for two hours.
We got our pumpkin from a northwest suburb in Chicago. From their website it looked like a fun, adventurous(for a school day) place to frolic in a field of glorious orange globes. We were sorely disappointed however. They have an exhibit there called animal land which we expected to be something like a petting zoo with farm animals. We should have delved deeper into the website. Instead what we paid to see was a collection of exotic animals kept in cages, some far to small and in no way mimicking a natural habitat. Cages of sleepy tiger cubs, bears, shivering kangaroo, large agitated wild birds, cages that were mere feet away from taunting children and oblivious adults all enclosed in a large tent that we hoped was adequate to keep the cold weather out. We stopped after the first tent. There were two more.
We also saw a mechanical dinosaur very slowly eat pumpkins with a climax that was comparable to the point when paint actually dries. The corn maze left something to be desired... that is unless you are three feet tall. I believe the fun of a maze comes from the fact that is it hard to find your way out. Standing two feet above the highest stalks surely prevents this. Later, my girlfriend discovered that the pumpkins were shipped from New Mexico.
So, if you like seeing pent up wild animals, the least impressive corn maze this side of Chicago and buying an out of state pumpkin you could have bought at ALDI for half the price, go to Goebberts.
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