A couple weekends ago, my good buddy Lance and I took our (total of) three sons to an awesome little farm about a half hour north east of the city. There's a corn maze, a hay bale maze, a puppet show, petting zoo, wagon rides... and a compressed air Corn Cannon.
Good times had by all!
Tav and Dex posing in front of the Arachno-Dragon. I don't know why, but the farm had a dragon theme throughout the whole place. We just went with it.
There was a series of eavestroughs under these old hand pumps (sucking water from horse troughs underneath), and if you pumped fast enough, your duck could win!!
Or fall over and get stuck time and time and time again!!
This spiral "maze" was sort of a let down, but it gave us a reason to say, "go run around those circles as fast as you can!" They did not disappoint.
The entrance to the Great Prairie Corn Maze. Since it was pushing lunch time when we entered, all we had to do was grab the nearest ear, shuck it, and pass it off to a hungry boy until we reached the exit. It was a great way to spend the better part of an hour.
Declan inspects a fuzzy caterpillar. These guys were all over the place in the corn. Many squished ones on the path. We felt like saviours for our new friend here.
One last ear of corn on the wagon ride back to the main part of the farm.
Me! Just in case you've forgotten what I look like. The other bald fellow in the reflection is Lance. We are the same sort of coiffure connoisseurs. I love the stunned look of the employee chick coming into frame.
Uh... if you're wondering about the strings of beads around my neck, those were our "tickets" to get into the corn maze. Tavish really enjoyed strangling himself with his, and that's why I'm wearing two.
Tavish, apres corn, and just before we got our lunch.
Both boys loved climbing the huge round hay bales over by the petting zoo. We went back the very next weekend again since we had so much fun the first time.
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Bye!
