Pumpkins, Squash, & Gourdes! Oh my!

So while visiting the fruit stand this weekend, I learned some interesting facts about the pumpkin. I was able to talk to a sweet employee there that was an absolute joy to be around (her name happened to be Joy..she does live up to her name!) I couldn't write quick enough, on my post it note, all the interesting information she was loading me down with. Yes, I am one of those note takers. I have to write things down to the last detail if I plan on remembering it even 5 minutes later... I keep saying I'm going to start taking those
vitamins that help with memory.
I just keep forgetting to follow through with that too. =/

This is my pumpkin showing off a knotted pumpkin
he picked out. =)

I forgot to mention that I lost the Post-It. There's no other place I would've put it besides my purse so it had to have grown legs and walked off while I was sleeping! I'll try to remember as much as I can...

They call these white pumpkins Cotton Candy.

This gourde was the biggest one they had in the whole place.

Joy also called these Cinderella pumpkins... these were my favorites.

some more interesting gourdes

Taking a break with his first glass bottle of Coke. What a great experience!

This is a peanut pumpkin... they plant the peanuts and pumpkins close causing them to grow together.

We also learned that the pumpkin is a type of squash and it's a fruit.
I always thought that squashes were vegetables!