October 21, 2006
Pumpkin Festival
On Sunday (10/15) all of us went to the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival for a balmy (just kidding) day of activities. We started out by having breakfast at the Half Moon Bay Coffee Company. Their pumpkin pancakes were as good as ever. We then spent some time checking out the booths and pumpkins. After we were done we headed over to Arata's Farm where they had a straw maze and lots of pumpkins and other stuff. We went into the maze as teams (boys against the girls). Bob and I made it out in just under 15 minutes while the girls got out in a little over 20 minutes. The maze was fun and I felt like a mouse for a little while. After fun at the maze we went to Little Creek Ranch for some pumpkin launching. It wasn't launching big pumpkins with catapults, but it was using a really large slingshot to launch fist sized pumpkins a couple of hundred yards at a target. It was a blast. After we had exhausted our pumpkin supply we called it a night and headed to Famous Dave's for dinner in Gilroy.