Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

My daughter's pre-K program had a field trip to a somewhat-local pumpkin patch last week.  She was so excited about her class trip that J-E and I both decided to join her for the special occasion.  It's important to me that J-E and I are the type of parents A- can look up to, trust to be there for her when she needs us, and in general have a good time together as a family.  Although I had [and still have] a lot of things I needed to do that day, I set my priorities aside for a few hours and we joined her class for a fun-filled afternoon.  It means so much to me that J-E does the same with his own priorities, joining us for her class trip, watching her when I work nights and even tucking her in bed, coming with me to all A-'s important appointments.  I'm thankful every day that A- has such a positive male role model in her life after so many years without!

We had a wonderful time together!  A- was thrilled with all the huge slides around the pumpkin patch, and she went down each of them with her classmates.  There were cows, pigs and goats to see, and we were able to take A- into the goat pen to pet and feed them.  She really enjoyed petting the goats, both large and small!  We rode a very elaborate hayride with A-'s class, and later walked through a corn maze filled with all sorts of creepy houses to walk through.  There was even a psychedelic school bus to walk through!  A day-glo-dotted pipe spun freely around a bridge that you crossed in the blacklit bus, and the room was so disorienting that the door appeared to spin in circles ahead of you.

J-E and I even got to have a little laugh over the leashed child chasing after a cat ::




Now for the fun stuff ::


PIGS!!  =)  I have a thing for pigs, although I much prefer the stuffed, plastic or ceramic kind.  ;D  At the end of our trip to the pumpkin patch, I picked up a neat little toy pig.  I've never seen one like it before, but it's a mother pig suckling a litter of piglets.  LOL  What can I say, I like weird things!


Now, this was cool!  Baby dragon hatchlings.  =)


A Psychic Rooster?  This farm has some interesting sights, for sure!

I think the biggest and best part of this trip for the kids was the tractor/hayride!

OH! Pokemon!  <333  J-E put a Gameboy Color emulator and a copy of Pokemon Yellow version on my PSP last night.  Oh, the childhood memories!


We were greeted by a space alien coming out of her ship along the ride!


Monster bus FTW =)


Lots of big horror movie names in this cemetery.  >=}




Gnomes!


Gotta love a zombie farmer.