Alas Millsboro

Herewith a brief review of the 2007 Punkin Chunkin expedition, pending photos and video from various parties involved. The configuration of the new location allows the crowd to stand directly behind even the big air cannons and monster trebuchets, including the much-admired Yankee Siege ("Now that," sighed one woman new to the event, "is a sexy bit of engineering"). The behind-the-pit vantage point made it a little easier to see the pumpkins on the rise, a definite plus, but stiff breezes from Hurricane Noel's passage directed the lighter frag from demolished pumpkins back toward the crowd. Ewwww. Weebat took to hiding behind Iosif in a bid to avoid the fluttering innards, but the rest of us were reduced to picking bits of slimy stuff off one another's jackets. Which, I should also mention, were heavy and layered, because it was damn cold for most of the early part of the event. Still, fun was had, squash was flung, beta carotene-olicious funnel cake was consumed. Full marks.