I Went to the Pumpkin House

If I could I would make my house look like this. I love to carve pumpkins. When I was a kid my mom did all the work getting the house ready for the holidays. One of the few things my dad did was to carve a pumpkin for us. My brother taught his kids how to do it too. I will carve one this year. I prefer the traditional evil smiley faced pumpkin. I did a fancy carving one year and it turned out well but I just like the pumpkins from my childhood best. I went to the Pumpkin House last year. It is over an hour from my house but it was worth the trip. The house is only a couple of blocks from the main road but it took over 2 hours for me to drive those last couple blocks. Once I got there it was like a carnival was going on. There were at least a couple thousand people there and there were more pumpkins than there were people. There was crazy halloween music playing and a whole section of lighted pumpkins lit up with the beat of the music. There was a wild pumpkin man riding a bicycle and a host of carved pumpkins in every shape and size imaginable. I was fortunate because right when I got in front of the house traffic stopped so that the van in front of me could load a woman in a wheelchair. So I got to sit there and take everything in instead of just driving around and leaving like I would have to do if traffic were flowing. Every halloween season, the house at 748 Beech Street in Kenova, West Virginia is transformed into the Great Pumpkin House. The owner, Ric Griffith and hundreds of other volunteers carve thousands of pumpkins for display at his home every halloween. This year (2006) they plan on having 3,030 pumpkins on display. Yahoo map to the house Directions: Interstate I-64 to the Kenova Exit (#1). Go North on Rt. 75. at 4th traffic light, make a right (East) on Rt 60. Go 7 blocks. Make a left onto 7th Street. Go 1 block, turn left again

If I could I would make my house look like this. I love to carve pumpkins. When I was a kid my mom did all the work getting the house ready for the holidays. One of the few things my dad did was to carve a pumpkin for us. My brother taught his kids how to do it too. I will carve one this year. I prefer the traditional evil smiley faced pumpkin. I did a fancy carving one year and it turned out well but I just like the pumpkins from my childhood best.