The kids started out at the duck races. They had to pump water as fast as they could to try to get their duck down to the end.
They've got lots of animals, but I thought this was pretty cool. Although there were none on it while WE were watching (naturally), the goats actually like to climb the stairs and go up and over this thing. Crazy!
Hay stacks to climb on...
This dude was shooting pumpkins with the cannon...
You can pan for gold here. And if you can see behind the silo, there is a big black pipe coming out of the top of the hill. That's the top of the slide...
And the BOTTOM of the slide...
This is where you go to launch little pumpkins and gourds--James thought it was great.
Joe, as usual, had his own method...
For the men who are bored by the REAL fun, they've got chess...
This is a GIANT jumping pillow. Never mind the words on the green part. They just say no jumping on the edge--everybody is really allowed to be up there. ;-)
Love this picture--it's so THEM. :-)
They also had go-cart tracks, but for pedal cars. It would've been so fun for the kids (or adults, probably!), but the line was way too long and nobody felt like standing there for half an hour when we could be doing other things.
Joe enjoyed playing in the corn box... until he looked around and realized he was the only one over age 4 in there. Ha!
I've wanted to do a corn maze ALL MY LIFE!!! I finally got the chance and then... well, I made the mistake of going with James Horne! SO FRUSTRATING!!!
It started out well enough and everybody seemed to be having fun.
Sam thought it was cool to find some corn still on the stalks.
To make a long story short, James is not a maze kind of a guy. He doesn't want to waste time LOOKING or SEARCHING for anything--he's just not built that way. He's a GET-IT-DONE kind of guy, so after about 10 minutes of wandering around through the maze he began directing the family THROUGH the corn and back towards where we came from. We finally exited... through the entrance. ~sigh~ How embarrassing. He's such a cheater!!! (Another reason I need some other people to come to this place with us next year--I don't want to do the maze with JAMES again!!!)
After all of that, we took a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch. I've never seen anything like it--acres and acres of pumpkins! So cool!
Here's everybody in search of the perfect pumpkin... I love the colors in this picture. :-)
Here's Sambo with his selection. A perfectly round little beauty that was still half green. It was cool!
This is James with Katie's selection--the one that looked like it had been cinched up with a belt. :-)
And the kids with their pumpkins on the ride back to the farm.
We had a terrific time and are already looking forward to next year when we can go on a day when nobody will be there but us and the Clarksons and the Smiths and the Hays and... ;-)
4 comments:
How FUN! I've always wanted to do the corn maze thing. Maybe someday. That place looks really, really neat! And that's so great that they cater to the homeschoolers. Good for them.
Very fun Becki, i would love to come and Jreremiah will be walking next year, that will be great. I too hsve always wanted to do the corn maze thing. Their is one in Midland and I hope I can finally make it this yr at age 34. Great pictures and great fun I am sure of that.
I was cracking up that James made you all go through the corn. That is SO SO james.
Just think of all of the adorable pictures Sam could get of Jeremiah at a place like this, Tammy!
And Mom, you're invited to join us as the Church's homeschool Grandma. ;-)
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