Sunday, October 16, 2011

Puck's Farm

This weekend Jen's parents came to visit.  Although I know they'd be happy just to hang out at the apartment all day playing with The Bean in the living room, we thought it'd be nice to do a special outing with them.  

We'd been talking about going to a farm and found Puck's Farm recommended in an email list we're on.  We went today to check it out.  

We took a couple of wrong turns, so it took a while to get there.  The Bean hadn't had a good nap that morning and he wouldn't sleep in the car so I was concerned at how well he'd hold up, but once we arrived he was busy looking around and really wasn't too fussy. 

We were greeted by this handsome fellow:


The first thing we did when we got there was walk through the stables.  There were quite a few animals -sheep, goats, pigs, cows, horses, a baby donkey (so cute!), a llama, bunnies, ducks, etc.  The Bean seemed to enjoy looking at all the animals.  Well, all except the horse, which kinda' freaked him out. 


 
Next we went on a wagon ride.  The Bean had fun chewing on the hay we were sitting on. 


After the wagon ride we got a bite to eat.  There was a booth with fries and burgers and whatnot.  The Bean played on the grass while we waited for our order.  Then we went into a little cabin-y thing to eat.  It was freezing so it was nice to be inside and have a chance to warm up a bit. 

 

When we arrived, we were told that the pumpkin patch had been picked clear, so we didn't even bother going over to it.  There were a few big boxes of pumpkins for sale though.  We thought it made a good photo op. 

 

There were some scary-looking fair rides and a "haunted farm" to go through, but it was starting to drizzle a bit and we were all about ready to head home, so we decided to save those things for a future visit.


All in all it was a nice way to spend a fall Sunday.

5 comments:

  1. Great pictures! It doesn't get any better than babies and pumpkins lol

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  2. Thanks Strawberry. Babies and pumpkins do make an adorable combination, don't they?

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  3. Adorable pictures. We're going to the pumpkin patch this weekend and I'm excited. It's my favourite outing of the year - mostly because of the great kid photo ops. :)

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  4. Hey Shannon, would you mind sharing which pumpkin patch you guys go to? We're taking suggestions on good ones in the area. (You are in the area, right?)

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  5. Hi Allison. We're in Bowmanville (which is about 40 mins east of Toronto) so we go to Knox's (http://www.knoxpumpkinfarm.com/). we have friends from Toronto who go there too. We like Whittamore's but it's really expensive. We're actually going on Sunday. Feel free to join us! There's a big group of us going.

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