The main event of our New York trip was the
The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze in Croton-on-Hudson (near Sleepy Hollow). I can't begin to describe how amazing this was. Over 5,000 hand-carved jack o'lanterns illuminated and set up in these amazing displays (900 are real pumpkins that have to be re-carved each week, the rest are hand-carved artificial pumpkins called funkins). There were snakes slithering along the ground, a field of sunflowers, a creepy cemetery, spiders and a huge spider web, an undersea aquarium and sea serpent, dinosaurs, and so much more! It was amazing. My pictures don't do it justice at all. And for some reason I didn't take any photos of our group. I guess I was too enthralled with the pumpkins.
Beehive with bees flying around it.
There were three of these huge cubes and we weren't sure what they were until we had almost passed them and a creepy pumpkin head popped out of the top. Jack O'Lantern in the box!
The Tunnel O' Pumpkin Love.
Headless horseman out of legos in the Museum of Pumpkin Art.
This kid passed out about halfway through.
We met up with my brother and his family at the Storm King Art Center in the Hudson River Valley. The kids were thrilled to be reunited with their cousins James and Isla. This gigantic sculpture park was the perfect place for the kids to run and play and for the adults to visit and enjoy some amazing sculptures. I was blown away by the size and scope of the park and the sculptures (over 130 sculptures by artists like Alexander Calder and Mark Di Suvero). The fall colors only made it that much more stunning. We started with a tram ride around the whole park since there was no way we could walk through all of it. We hopped off the tram at the Andy Goldsworthy wall which was beautiful. The kids had fun playing hide and seek around the wall.
