Long weekend, pt. 2 (Gross Farms and Don't Drink the Water!!)

I wish I had discovered this place earlier!! Lily and I drove about 20 minutes north to find Gross Farms, a nice little farm that does berry picking in the summer and pumpkins in the fall. Aside from the pumpkin patch, they had tons of stuff for kids to do. There were great things to climb on, like a wooden train and this big boat:

They had tricycles to ride...

And a big bouncy thing that was a blast!!!

However, Lily preferred playing in the sand surrounding the bouncy thing, and by playing I mean rolling around and getting filthy. Good thing the sand was dry, at least. Here she is making a "sand angel":

After getting tuckered out on all the playthings, we went for a hayride. Lily amused our hay-riding companions by singing "we are on a hayride!!" about 50 times. She was so excited!!

Then we took a stroll through the pumpkin patch. Lily pretty much headed out with her friend Izzy, who met up with us at the farm. I don't think she stopped running the whole evening.

There was a big sign outside the pumpkin area that said "You pick it, you buy it!", but of course, the two girls wanted to grab every pumpkin they saw, saying "here's a good one!" And every time they saw one that was rotting or smooshed, they said "ewwwwwww, gross"

All in all, it was a great evening, and the weather was nice and warm.

We had a nice surprise when we got home, though - a Boil Water order!!! Whoopeee. I thought it was odd as we were driving home that all of the fast food restaurants were dark and empty. This is the second time this has happened in the last year! Yuck. Good thing we've got some bottled water on hand to get through the next day or two - hopefully it is fixed by then!