This past Saturday Lily and I went on an adventure. We piled in the car and went driving on some curvy mountain backroads to the little town of Elkin, NC in Yadkin Valley wine country. They had a pumpkin festival, and, well, I just love pumpkins.

We arrived to a little downtown area that was completely blocked off for the festival, which included lots of vendors, some bad-for-you but REALLY good carny food, and pumpkins. Oh, watermelons too.

Lily and I got there in just enough time to see them weighing the pumpkins, which were HUGE! This years winner weighed 1,210 lbs. That is ridiculous, but didn't quite meet the state record of 1,258 lbs which was weighed at the festival last year. Of course, the first thing that I thought about was how many pumpkin spice muffins I could squeeze out of one of those monsters.

Lily also go her picture taken next to the world record-breaking watermelon, weighing in at 291 lbs. I wanted to bite it.

It was a lot of fun, and a perfect end to our week together before David got in from Idaho. More on that soon.