Bloomsbury Farm

Last Friday, the kids and I took a day off from school to have a field trip day to Bloomsbury Farms.  We had gone there last year and the kids kept begging to go back there again this year.  The day was a beautiful warm fall day (once the morning chill was gone).  We had a great time.  I took my camera, but got tired of lugging it around with me and dumped it in the van after a few pictures were taken here and there.
We had fun playing in the giant rocking chair.


This next picture does not at all do this thing justice.  It's part of a little maze you go through and you enter the end of this tunnel with a walkway through the middle of it.  The tube around the walkway is covered with lights and is spinning around so that when you enter, you feel as though you are about to fall over.  If you notice David leaning to the side and Ana hanging on for dear life to the railing, that is how you walk through the tunnel.  It's such a fun sensory overload and the kids and I thought it was the greatest thing ever!
Goofing around together...

My three favorite kiddos in the whole world.
Other fun things we did there that I do not have pictures of include: the jumping pillow (a giant air filled pillow like thing attached to the ground - it's basically a glorified trampoline - always great fun), a picnic lunch, playing in the corn bin, feeding goats, playing on tractor tires, and the corn maze.  We went through the maze twice.  Once was using the map (Ana and Abby felt too fearful of getting lost for us to try it without the map).  The second time we did it, we did it the puzzle way - having certain pieces of the map until you find various markers in the maze, at which point you get another piece of the map.  This scenario was further enhanced when we started pretending we were searching for treasure and had only parts of a treasure map, flashlights that kept running out of batteries, hiding from bears, avoiding the booby traps other hapless adventurers had fallen into, and a myriad of other things we had to overcome.  We were somewhat sad to see that we had made it through the maze so quickly, but quickly placated by the fact that they were blasting pumpkins from the pumpkin cannon right as we got out of the maze.  It was a great day topped off by eating ice cream sundaes on our way home. 

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