Friday, October 24, 2008

What do you get when you combine...

an empty cornfield...


in the pumpkin capitol of the world...


with a group of people with nothing to do on a beautiful October Saturday...


and a bunch of people willing to build contraptions with the sole purpose of flinging 8 lb, round, orange objects as far as possible?????


You get the Morton, Illinois Annual Punkin' Chuckin Contest!!!


It's pretty sweet!

7 comments:

Jaimee said...

That is awesome! I bet Ella loved it! What a fun family outing! Great post.

Justin said...

oh my heckness!!! this is a dream come true! A PUMPKIN HOWITZER!!

Troy and Nancee Tegeder said...

That looks cool. Definitely need to put that on my list of things to see someday, but that i probably won't really see.

The Ensign's said...

Wow and soooo are Ella's sunglasses!

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Anonymous said...

Heather....I am so motivated now! I've spent the last couple days plotting my own blog! Morton seems like a tourist hot spot! HA! We love you guys and had such fun! So Happy you came to visit us in the "Pumpkin capital of the World"!

Jueneta said...

What an awesome activity. We had one yucky pumpkin that we had too much fun destroy but that would have been fun.