Saturday, October 27, 2012

happy birthday and pumpkins!!!!

As you know, I am always on the watch for "places and things to take my service puppy to".. so when we heard about the big pumpkinfest at LL Beans, I knew there would be a huge crowd for dog training. We packed up Abbie (who is a strawberry this year) and headed up. As "promised" the streets were crowded....
Rylie was great. Drew a lot of attention (as usual), but I found a real hazard with having a black dog. Once it got dark (and she is still little) she got bumped into and stepped on a number of times.. people just did not see her.... she took it all in stride...
Everywhere you looked there were pumpkins. Many were done and donated by schools, so the kids did a number of the carvings...
It was "magical" at night after they were all lit... walkways were lined with their happy faces....
Some of the carvings were very simple... and other quite detailed. It was fun to look at all the ones that we could....
Now, you can't go to Bean's and not get a picture of the famous boot!!!! Sadie, Abbie and Rylie were more than happy to pose....
"OK.. enough of the pictures!!!"
(well, maybe just one or two more).. can't help but do pictures of grandbaby and puppy!!!!
I asked one volunteer how many pumpkins were there, she said around 10,000!!! (yes that's the right number)... the town was filled.....
We met up with Kas and Nate.. who brought Rachel and Mike, and Katie and Craig.... so a picture of my kids!! (of course)....
My Dad and Mom were there as well.. actually they were spending the night in celebration of my Dad's birthday. I'm sorry that we didn't have the other two grand daughters in this birthday photo.. but happy that I got this one.


so a celebration of birthday and pumpkins.. a proper way to end  the month of October!!!!