The Pumpkin Patch

Last Tuesday, we went to Vala's Pumpkin Patch for the day. It was an AMAZING place! I got half-priced tickets from a Living Social deal which had to be used last week. We had no idea what to expect. On their website it said that they had something like 44 attractions...I don't know that we even got to half of them! Sadly, we never even got to the pumpkin patch. Strange, huh? We were so busy with the other attractions that when we finally made it to spot where the hayrides to the pumpkin patch start we had already been there for 5 hours. The man at the station said that the pumpkin patch ride took about a 50 minutes. Since it was already mid-afternoon, about 80 degrees out, and we had two tired boys, we decided to just purchase our pumpkin from the store at the entrance. Maybe we will go to another pumpkin patch later this month where we actually have time to get to a field of pumpkins! The boys loved all of the attractions at Vala's. I think Jonah could have been there for days and still not take in everything he wanted to see. It was such a fun day and a great time together as a family! Sorry, there might be a lot of pictures here.

 

Our growing boys!

 

Sy enjoying the pig races

 

Jonah cheering on his pig. It came in last. 

 

In one play area, the kids could slide and jump into piles of hay

 

Wondering if he really wanted to scare the crows

 

Riding a tricycle around the trike track

 

Sy finally decided it was cool to wear sunglasses

 

Jonah with the train engineer

 

Riding the train

 

This llama really wanted to eat

 

Sy feeding the goats - remember our trip to the MN zoo?!?! 

This experience with goats was much, much better. 

 

Watching the pumpkin-eating dragon show

 We walked through a 3 acre corn maze and got lost - a lot.

Sy somehow slept during a very bumpy ride through the corn maze

 

We ended our day with a ride in little tractor-pulled trailers.

After all of the exciting parts of our visit, we picked out a big pumpkin for our family at the pumpkin shop at the entrance to the pumpkin patch. We let Jonah pick out a mini pumpkin for himself and one for Silas. I think Grandma Nelson would be very pleased with Jonah's pumpkin selection tastes. :)