Pumpkins Anyone?

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If you love pumpkins you must pay a visit to Ludwigsburg, Germany for the World's Largest Pumpkin Festival, an annual event held in the fall, that features - well, all things pumpkin, of course!

While the festival, which is held on the grounds of a 17th century castle, features all the normal pumpkin festival items, like competition for the largest pumpkin and all kinds of pumpkin foods, like pumpkin curry and pumpkin jelly, it also has some really cool things that nobody else has.

The first one is pumpkin sculptures - Each year, the organizers decide on a theme, like 'reach for the stars' or 'fairy tales' and the artists get to work building amazing themed structures with pumpkins.

And then, and this is my most favorite one, there is the giant pumpkin boat race - where they carve out large pumpkins and turn them into boats. They then have actual competitions where competitors sit inside and paddle with an oar, to the finish line. Who knows what the prize is, but I'm guessing it is something to do with pumpkins! I would do it just for the fun of it, wouldn't you?

Sources: dailymail.co.uk,dailytelegraph.co.uk,familyonthemove.blogspot.com

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196 Comments
  • Daniel over 13 years
    I learned today that pumpkins can be used for different things.
    • Rubyover 13 years
      Today I learned that in Germany,they have pumpkin races, where they get inside a pumpkin, into the water, and they start racing with other people.
      • Laquilaover 13 years
        I leearned that they actually have a pumkin themed even held some where and I also didn't know that they could cave pumkins and actually ride in them I thought that they would be unsafe and fall apart.
        • deannaover 13 years
          i learned that almost everywhere there is thanksgiving. In this paragraph thanksgiving is in Europe. They have the biggest pumpkin festival in the world! They have competitions,boats made out of pumpkins that you could race down the river. I learned that not only America has thanksgiving.
          • caelanover 13 years
            I learned that there are pumpkins that are big enough to fit and adult in like it was a boat!
            • L. Noahover 13 years
              Nice! I like the pumpkin water race, thats cool :D
              • apollyonalmost 14 years
                thats so wierd
                • purplepanda
                  purplepandaalmost 14 years
                  omg that is soooooo cool
                  • bubbles
                    bubblesalmost 14 years
                    wow this is awesome
                    • obilly
                      obillyalmost 14 years
                      creapy