We never got around to carving the pumpkin in Nanyuki, so I brought it home and asked Alexia if she wanted to watch Hocus Pocus and help me carve it. After struggling for several minutes to carve out a lid, I gave Alexia a spoon to scoop out the pumpkin guts.
"Gweeeen, what will it look like?"
"I don't know yet. Maybe something like this" I showed her some examples online. "What picture should we put on the front?"
"A lion!"
"OK, how about Mufasa?"
"Yeah!"
I traced a stencil of Mufasa and Simba then held it up to the pumpkin. Maybe I was being a little too ambitious. I had a hard enough time cutting a large hole in the top of the pumpkin, how was I supposed to carve out these little details? Kenyan pumpkins just aren't the same as the ones I'm used to carving back home. I opted for a simple, but classic Jack-o'-Lantern face. I started carving and knew right away that there was no way I could let Alexia help. She didn't seem to mind when I told her.
"Gweeeen, what will it look like?"
"I don't know yet. Maybe something like this" I showed her some examples online. "What picture should we put on the front?"
"A lion!"
"OK, how about Mufasa?"
"Yeah!"
I traced a stencil of Mufasa and Simba then held it up to the pumpkin. Maybe I was being a little too ambitious. I had a hard enough time cutting a large hole in the top of the pumpkin, how was I supposed to carve out these little details? Kenyan pumpkins just aren't the same as the ones I'm used to carving back home. I opted for a simple, but classic Jack-o'-Lantern face. I started carving and knew right away that there was no way I could let Alexia help. She didn't seem to mind when I told her.