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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- hannah 123over 14 yearsthat guy was prity fast
- grrfaceover 14 yearshow in the world do you watch videos???????
- Jacobover 14 yearslet me smash em
- Jacobover 14 yearsI wanna smash em
- austin 99over 14 yearspumpkins look!
- Sarahover 14 yearsI wounder how they can get the pumkins to flote?I think it woud be prity hard to stear a pumkin.
- laurenover 14 yearsI knew pumpkins got huge. I didn't know you could carve out the huge ones and go in them and race them.
- wayneover 14 yearsHow do pumpkins float?
- Aaronover 14 yearsIt's kind of odd that they car
- Aaronover 14 yearsIt's kind odd that they carve the pumpkins into boats and then race them! Gee,I wonder where Ludwigsburg is.