International Pumpkin Passions
Posted on Monday, February 26th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Yes, this has become know as the “orphan blog” but I’m back and am looking to reclaim my little round orange baby, aka “Pumpkin Passion.”
While my blogging on pumpkins may have taken a hiatus, my passion for pumpkins did not. In fact, even my very first vacation requiring a passport involved my love for pumpkins.
Back in late October, I took a trip to London, England. Yeah! Much fun was had by me and my friends. The trip involved my loves for Harry Potter (we saw platform 9 3/4), Jane Austen (we visited the The Jane Austen Centre in the city of Bath) and Pumpkins.
At Kew Gardens they had an Autumn Harvest Festival complete with 5.3 million cranberries, 200 varieties of Apple, and 30 tonnes of pumpkin. While I’m not sure if they REALLY counted all those cranberries and I had to google “tonnes” to learn that it’s a measurement of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms, I do know that the gardens were absolutely beautiful and it was such an enormous pleasure to be there during the fall season.
The pumpkin display was the best I have ever seen. Just look at some of these pictures:
The highlight was the 6 metre figure of a running man constructed from pumpkins!!! How freaking awesome is that?!?! It’s not something you see in the States because we look at pumpkins and see jack o’ laterns and pies but they see art.
Even though we were there the week before Halloween, this was really the only time we ever saw pumpkins. There was absolutely no pumpkin food-not even a pumpkin spice latte could be found at the London Starbucks. We did, however, manage to have a great time.
Rating: 10 out of 10
I suppose it’s a cultural thing as to why you saw almost no pumpkins – along the lines of why people look at me funny when I talk about wanting to bbq sweet potatoes in the summer (when, of course, on the west coast they tend to be a ‘holiday only’ food). LOVED the photos, though. It looks like you all had a blast.