Inmanween

One of the things I love about our neighborhood are the events that the Business Association put on.  The ISBA is responsible for events like Inmanween, Shop Inman by Moonlight, the Inman Hoedown, Inman Fun, and Inman Movie Night.

JO and I were the two time defending Inmanween Pumpkin Carving Champs heading into this year's event.  On Tuesday we walked down to Ricky's Flower Mart to select our pumpkins

Love this place

and on Thursday we carved our pumpkins under the tutelage of my father, master pumpkin carver (although he refused to help scoop out the guts insisting he was supervising only.)

There may have been some power tools involved.

Four hours later the pumpkins were complete.

Bowser- My entry

Luigi- JO's entry

Friday night we headed over to the plaza to enter our pumpkins but upon seeing our competition it was pretty clear we would be relinquishing our title (which we were ok with...I mean the dragon pumpkin kicked butt!)

Truly stunning work

After the judging we headed over to Trina's for cocktails before meeting up with our friend for dinner.  We had a great time catching up and enjoying all things Inman Square.

We walked home past all of the decorations.  I really do love our neighborhood and thanks to our 2nd and 3rd place finishes we have gift cards to enjoy local businesses and our pumpkins ended up in the window of Boutique Fabulous!