Pineapple carving

There are no pumpkin patches on Okinawa. I was a little devastated thinking about the fact that I wouldn't get to take any pics of Rowan in a pumpkin patch, nor would we probably be carving pumpkins (because they are $10 each and already rotting at the stores here). However, Brea and I were chatting one day and thought it seemed appropriate and awesome to carve pineapples! We were planning to also go pick our own at the "pineapple patch" but we ran out of time for that, so we picked some up at the road side market.

We started off the evening with a delicious dinner of mummy dogs and macaroni and cheese, out on our patio (our new favorite hangout now that it feels amazing outside!)

 TJ cored all the pineapples and my kitchen now smells AMAZING! The process was a little stickier than pumpkins, but really not bad and again, smelled so dang good. We ate a lot of pineapple in the process too :)

 Brea and Dominik

 Our 4 funny faces. We bought the darker pineapple at a different market and it was interesting to see how different the varieties were. Fun little variation

 Rowan didn't have as much fun as us tonight but maybe he would have liked it better if we had let him gnaw on the core...maybe next year buddy :)

Happy almost Halloween! Crazy last year we announced our pregnancy on Halloween, and this year we are living in Japan with a 5 month old...amazing what can happen in a year :)