Fall Day at the Pumpkin Patch

Ok, so it's the same exact place we went to just a week before but it is amazing what a week can do...it was a cooler day - still sunny - but cool and it just felt more like Fall on this day...maybe because it was October now, who knows?! For this outing, we met Wendy, PC & Marty for breakfast then headed out to the orchard.







We focused more on play and pumpkins this go around: running through the gourd cave, in and out of the cornhusk teepee and we even loaded the kids in a wagon and ventured into the corn maze! I, of course, thought I could take an alternate route in the field and come up on a different side of the rest of the group to surprise them, but I got the surprise and was lost! After re-tracing my steps, I joined up with them and we all had a laugh.






Next up was the hayrack ride out to the pumpkin patch! We had clippers in hand and went out to find the great pumpkin! Zoie & Marty both found their own little pumpkins that they could carry and we loaded them up after some photo ops and headed back to the main building.


No visit to this orchard would be complete without a stopping by the raspberry bushes!! Zoie fell right into her pattern of picking and eating with vim & vigor! Marty wasn't sure at first until he saw us eat one and once he tasted the bursting sweetness of that first raspberry, it was on! All parents ended up giving the orchard a couple of dollars to cover the amount of raspberries our little ones devoured!


Finally, we paid for our pumpkins and got caramel apples and cider slushies and had a tail-gate picnic, at which time it was obvious the kids were out of fun tickets so we loaded up and headed home for lunch and nice long naps!