Pumpkin pie

The other day my friends and I decided to carve the pumpkin. We did it a little bit early but there was a good reason for that - my good friend was leaving the country and she really wanted to experience this pumpkin carving thing.
So, as the person who does not mind cooking, I was responsible for making pumpkin pie.
It was kinda weird from the very beginning. 1) When I've started looking for recipes I found several that mentioned cloves (for example this one). Are those garlic cloves??? If there's garlic, than it's not a dessert anymore. I understand when you use garlic for garlic bread, but not for a cake!!!
Anyway, I found another recipe and it worked quite well for me.
2) it's not as easy as I though to get pumpkin "meat" out of pumpkin. You cannot just cut it off. It peels . I'm not a pumpkin lover and never cooked anything with it before, but I'm sure pumpkins back home are different! And then it was not easy to puree it even after cooking it according the directions. So I end up using a tool for pureeing garlic or garlic grater.

The pie was awesome. Carving was a difficult process. An American guy who was doing it had hard time.

When we finished carving and baking it turn out to be that we don't have candles, so some of us went to Wal*Mart around midnight to get candles. Then it turned out that we didn't have a lighter or matches... Well, though it was late I went to ask my neighbors if they had it... those who were not sleeping didn't have anything (... we live in a non-smoking place).

Well... don't wanna tell how we did it, but we were able to light the candles!!!