I love bringing the kids to pumpkin patches and fall festivals back in the states, but that doesn't happen here in Japan. I really wanted to do something fun that wasn't just buying pumpkins at the commissary so we signed up for the annual pumpkin run.
It was so fun! Normally it is a 5k, where you run to the pumpkins, choose your pumpkin, and run with it the second half of the race. They shortened it from a 5k a little bit because of typhoon damage, but that is ok with us. I had to walk the whole way back and some of the way there because of Calista and Beatrix. It is hard to carry a baby and run!
Calista was so happy to pick out her own pumpkin. Bob was the lucky one who got to carry it for her along with her (she rode on his back most of the race) and his own pumpkin.
We let the older kids go ahead of us so we only saw them in passing, but they were all really happy when we found them at the end. They kept talking about how big their pumpkins are. I'm pretty sure they only seem bigger when you have to carry them for a mile race. And yes that is a lady behind them with a pumpkin in a baby carrier.
Now we get to carve them!
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