Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

Two weekends ago we piled the kids in the camry and drove 2 hours to Half Moon Bay. I love the way that sounds, so pretty, Half Moon Bay! My sisters friend Jennifer is from San Francisco and suggested we check the pumpkin festival out and I'm glad we did! I am a total sucker for stuff like that! I guess Half Moon Bay is known for growing giant pumpkins and they have a huge festival every year. And it was huge! I felt like I was at Disneyland, the streets were so crowded! The Comfort Suites in Half Moon Bay was sold out, so we got a hotel south of the airport which was super busy!

As a sidenote on the airport hotel, there were tons of tourists and loads of Asians. And they loved Addison! They stared at her and talked to her. One even got a picture of her and Matt, and then when the kids and I got back to the table after getting our breakfast, they got another with all five of us. Addie was wearing a Halloween shirt and Matt pointed it out and said something about Halloween. The man in his broken English said "Oh, her name is Halloween?" It was kinda strange, but cute.

So the drive from the hotel to the festival was ridiculous! I'm talking traffic for MILES! We drove the 10 mile drive down there in about an hour. Matt was so flustered, he kept asking if we could just go next year instead!



Here we are just getting there. I'm glad we got this picture because it's one of the only ones we took at the actual festival.



The winning pumpkin. Not the prettiest thing I've ever seen, but huge!



Here we are just outside of town. They had tons of little pumpkin patches and corn mazes set up. We stopped here and had fun while we waited for the traffic to die down.



Addison found a gigantic pumpkin and decided she wanted to sit and chill for awhile. I have no clue what she's looking at, must be pretty interesting though because Matt couldn't get her to look at him for anything!



In between all the pumpkin festivities we made our way down to the beach. It was so pretty! They've got a huge state park there so we definitely plan on camping sometime soon!



Here's the path we took down to the beach. Matt carried Addie and made me nervous the whole time! He was careful and everybody made it down safely.

Shot of the whole fam'.



Matt had to put poor Addie's feet in. She didn't cry, even though the water was freezing! She just picked her feet up quickly.




Gettin' artsy!



The kids thought we were leaving right after the hotel so Christian got completely soaked! It was warm outside, but not warm enough to be completely sopping wet! Matt gave him the option of taking his pants off and walking around in his boxers... so he did! Boys...






And here is our boy! We didn't really know where we parked in relation to the beach so we ended up taking the long way back to the car. SO classy!