I checked the weather report for Half Moon Bay this morning – “Cloudy, cool with a high of 64 degrees…” Exactly my kind of day. Perfect weather for the opening of the 39th Annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival! Ron and I got up early this morning so that we could head out and beat the traffic…well, that was the plan. It took us an hour and a half to get there. Not too bad.
We have been to Half Moon Bay many times but this was only our second time at the festival. It’s great fun...a parade, artists and vendors selling their art and goods, the great pumpkin weigh off, different bands playing at various stages along Main Street. People watching is my favorite activity at this event. Children of all ages come in costume…newborns in little punkin suits to grannies wearing sequin covered witch hats. My favorite this year was a dad, mom and baby dressed as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein and Baby Frankenstein. I wasn’t brave enough to wear a costume, but I did buy a really great pumpkin hat!
We have been to Half Moon Bay many times but this was only our second time at the festival. It’s great fun...a parade, artists and vendors selling their art and goods, the great pumpkin weigh off, different bands playing at various stages along Main Street. People watching is my favorite activity at this event. Children of all ages come in costume…newborns in little punkin suits to grannies wearing sequin covered witch hats. My favorite this year was a dad, mom and baby dressed as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein and Baby Frankenstein. I wasn’t brave enough to wear a costume, but I did buy a really great pumpkin hat!
There are artists and vendors from all over the country – great stuff! My lovely husband bought me my first handblown glass pumpkin (looks like I've started a new collection!). The food is the typical and delicious festival fare, the kind of stuff that you only let yourself enjoy when you are at an arts and crafts festival or renaissance fair – turkey legs, tri-tip sandwiches, corn dogs, roasted corn on the cob, garlic fries, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread and pumpkin ice cream. Yummy!
The only that kept it from being a perfectly wonderful day was the weather. As it turns out, there was hardly a cloud in the sky. It was, in fact, not cool, but hot! Not Arizona hot, but hot enough to make me perspire in my turtleneck, black long sleeved t-shirt, black jeans, scarf and pumpkin hat. When we were driving away from the pumpkin patch (our last stop before we headed back to the East Bay), I noticed that the car thermometer read 81 degrees! No wonder I was sweating! I may even have a little sunburn on my nose. Even so, it was a lovely day…
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keep that nose under a hat woman!
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