Autumnal activities

It's October, so that means it's time to go pay way too much money for a gourd to cut, gut, and have rot on your front porch.  'Tis the season, right?

The pumpkin patch we went to this year was more of a pumpkin field, with a pumpkin house, but they had some other fun stuff to do, and we got a Groupon for it, so what are you going to do?  NOT go?  I don't think so.


The big attraction for Ella was the cow train.  Oh, mercy.

The cow train, for the uninitiated, is just what it sounds like.  It's a bunch of cow cars hooked together and towed around by an ATV.  Good family fun!  In fact, so much fun that she insisted on riding it a second time.   She's turning into quite the little daredevil when it comes to thrill-type rides, which is strange coming from a kid who screeches when we're in the car and she thinks we're going too fast.

There was also a corn maze, huge jumping pillow (which we avoided because the line was really long), gem mining, and of course, ye olde pumpkin patch.

I believe that the pumpkin we came home with is about the size of Gussy (and if you're familiar with Gussy, that's saying something).  Carving has already taken place -- I went with something Ella-friendly this year, good ol' Mickey-the-Mouse.   Pics of that to come.