A Pumpkin Patch, Desert-Style

It was a hot, dry, dusty 95 degree day, but despite all that we decided to check out Las Vegas' very own pumpkin patch...along with the rest of North Las Vegas. The place was packed!! We went to Gilcrease Orchard, hiked about half a mile in, battled hoards of sweaty people, to see if anything really CAN grow in the desert, and discovered that yes, apparently pumpkins can.

First though, Lucy decided to go down the hay slide in a dress, which only resulted in getting hay slivers stuck up her panties. Poor Luce! She complained about it the rest of the day.

Next we finally found the pumpkins, which were a little sickly looking, even Lucy asked, "what's wrong with these pumpkins?" But it was more about the outing than anything else.

We had fun walking through sand (literally), rolling the pumpkins over trying to find the best one, and finally deciding not to purchase any of them b/c a)they were more expensive than the ones in the grocery store (must have had to subsidize their watering costs), and b) the line to purchase pumpkins was at least 50 people deep.

Lucy was pretty sad once she'd found the perfect pumpkin, but we told her that we would call the little Pumpkin Elves who would then go back and deliver it to our house later (we ended up buying some $2 lookers at Trader Joe's, shhhh!).


Zachy definitely has his daddy's genes!! That boy loves to wander!! He liked getting lost in the dusty desert corn field and then tripping over some rocks so that he was covered in DIRT by the time we were done.