A Festival According to Ryley

This entry is taken from Ryley’s journal (word for word) regarding our experience of the Keene Pumpkin Festival in New Hampshire on Saturday, October 20, 2007
Today I went to a pumpkin festival in Keene. Lots of pumpkins. Last year alone there was approximately 29 000 pumpkins. Wow! The biggest one was 720 lbs. Very Big! Some other big numbers are, there were 80 000 people last year at festival, probably more this year. You had to waddle like a penguin just to get anywhere. Kass went into a pumpkin pie eating contest. She got second place in her heat. She lost to a really big kid. The parents were CRAZY! One lady elbowed me in the ribs just to see her grandkid (well probably her son, but she looked REALLY old) lose. Then she didn’t move she just stood in front of me and complained about how her kid (grandson) had “Twice as big as piece then anybody” and “That’s why he lost” I wanted to say, “Shut-up GRANDMA! The reason the kid lost is ‘cause he didn’t eat all the pie on his plate! Even if your kid’s (grandkid) piece of pie was the same size as everybody else’s he STILL would have lost!” After that we got some burgers and got really annoyed of all the people and went home. Sounds fun eh??? GTG. Bye.