A Visit to the Pumpkin Patch

Melissa and the girls are visiting us this week because Danica has a "Fall Break" in addition to the traditional "Spring Break". I was afraid it was going to be cloudy and rainy the whole time they were here, but luckily the weather cleared up after several days. So yesterday we planned a trip out to Lone Pine Farms to check out the corn maze and the pumpkin patch.

They're growing up so fast!

 

Mira is at that stubborn age where she doesn't like looking at the camera.
 

They don't look too worried about being in jail.

 

I don't think Danica even knows what a saloon is?

 

Feeding the goats: You put some food pellets in a small cup, then pull on the rope so the cup rises up to the top, tipping over and spilling the pellets out where the goats can eat them. There are ramps leading up from the pens below to the feeding stations above so the goats can get up there.

 

Melissa was the bravest at actually feeding the goats out of her hand.

 

Mira kept trying to put her whole head through the hole instead of just her face (it didn't help that Grandpa kept saying "put your head through the hole, Mira!").

 

The corn maze was fun, although rather long. Clay and Danica seemed to enjoy it the most. I would have enjoyed it more if I had left my heavy purse in the car. I thought it was very well done, but I have absolutely no interest in coming to it at night when they have lots of scary things like people with chain saws. Mira insisted that Grandpa carry her almost all of the way ("I too scared to walk, Grandpa!").

 

Reading a clue in the corn maze. There are 10 posts throughout the maze where you answer a question on a card to tell you whether to go right or left at that intersection. They had about a dozen different versions of the clue cards with different subjects. We took 2 along with us: Halloween and Movies/TV. It was convenient to have two different subjects because we didn't know the answers to a couple of questions on each card, but with two of them to compare, we managed to make it through.

 

What a scary bunch! Do you think we should let them out of there?

 

 

There is a nice playground, too. Mira is getting braver at going down the slides by herself.

 

Danica loves the merry-go-round. It was one of my favorite things on the playground back when I was much younger, before my stomach started to protest things like that. Now I can barely stand to watch it, much less actually ride it.

 

The girls wanted to get pumpkins they could actually carry themselves, but the fields were picked clean of the smaller "Mira-sized" pumpkins. Mira ended up getting one out of their store where they sell the pre-picked ones.

 

Danica managed to find one she liked -- after checking through several huge fields of pumpkins.

 

 

Mira almost dropped hers, but Danica came to the rescue.

We all agreed that it was a very successful outing.
:-)