The whole family (including Will) went to the Pumpkin Patch this afternoon to pick pumpkins and run the corn maze. We went to the one on Six Mile and Curtis. Don't bother. The pumpkins were nice, but it was expensive. They charged you $5 just to get out to the pumpkin patch and the corn maze, let alone $5 a head for the Corn Maze itself.

Every year we go to pick pumpkins and the kids want the biggest pumpkins possible and I get stuck trying to carry them. This year, I had the genius idea of telling the kids they could get the biggest pumpkin out there, as long as they could carry it back to the tractor. After about 30 minutes of searching, they finally found their pumpkins. Nate could of cared less about the quality of the pumpkin, just the size. He must of tried lifting 30 different pumpkins. He finally found a huge one and somehow carried it out on his own. He wanted it badly.


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Afterwards, we hung around checking out the gords and the goats and then went for Ice Cream. Nate and I later went up to sell pop corn for his Cub Scout Den. Imagine 8 kids out in front of a video store and everytime someone comes through the doors, they're mobbed by all of the kids, kinda like little Hare Krishnas. I tried to teach them the art of the negative reversal, a great sales technique, by having them stand there looking dejected, saying "There's probably no way you could buy any popcorn from us, is there?". It was genius.

We finished the evening off by watching the movie Second Hand Lions, which was phenomenal. It stars Robert Duvall, Michael Caine and Haley Joel Osment. It was a fantastic movie about a boy growing up with his two uncles, their understanding of their identities and the larger story they live in. It's worth buying. I want to watch it with Nate.