Going Back to the Pumpkin Patch

Today I took the kids to Faulkner's Pumpkin Farm, which is a pumpkin patch in Missouri.  We went there last year as a family, and it was a pretty good fit for our kids.  The first thing you see are the animals.   New this year was a zebra, replacing the camel from last year, though you couldn't pet him.  Most of the other ones were pettable, including the Brahma bull that Joshua really liked.

This poor alpaca was there last year too, and it seems he has not gotten any more attractive over the past year.  In addition to his embarrassing haircut, because of his teeth and the way he chews, he looks like possibly the dumbest animal that has ever lived.  He's probably not the dumbest ever, but I bet he's not the brightest animal on the farm either.

We then took a break for lunch.  There were a lot of bees flying around, and they were very interested in the Sprites with one sipping from the top and then falling inside the can.  We decided to abandon that one.

We then explored the different activities around the farm.  They pumped the water pumps to push some rubber duckies along a path, then went through a corn maze (where one of the rules was that you had to have your hands behind your back), and then posed at the obligatory display that they hope you take a picture of and share with your friends on Facebook so they want to come next year.

There was a small train pulled by a guy driving a tractor, and the kids really enjoyed riding around in it.

As we were about to leave, I realized I didn't have a good picture of the kids together.  I put them on a bench, but I guess it was facing the sun too much, because the picture didn't work out as I'd imagined.  It's like I ended up with Think No Evil, Be Crabby, See No Evil.  I then relocated us to the place where you can pick out pumpkins and plopped them on a hay bale.  As you can see, it wasn't much better.  They were so tired and so ready to go home, that getting a great picture was a lost cause.

So I decided maybe I would have them hold pumpins, and that would solve everything.  Instead, that solved nothing, as they were not interested in complying, but there were insterested in trying to lift up the pumpkins, cover their faces, and accidentally drop them on the ground.  Oh well.  We still had a very fun day overall and will definitely consider going back again next year.