Adventure #12: The pumpkin patch

We are finally all healthy at the same time and ready to go on an outing!  As Halloween approaches a trip to the pumpkin patch was in dire need.  We headed back to LakeView Farms http://www.thelakeviewfarms.com/.  LakeView Farms is located in North Plains and I think it is the only thing located in North Plains besides the McDonald's by the freeway.  We went there 2 years before with friends and it was overwhelming.  Noah was out of control and it was insanely crowded.  We went by ourselves and mid week this year to help Noah hopefully have an easier time.

When you get there you drive down a long dirt road to the gift shop.  Right next to the gift shop is a petting zoo with some pigs, goats, bunnies and cats (?), literally kittens in a cage, don't know why.  After purchasing our train tickets we headed over to take a ride on the rails.  I didn't know how Noah would do.  When we came two years ago he spent the train ride punching me in the head.  This year we got into our seat and Noah kept trying to climb out, not a good start.  But after the train got going he sat next to me with a sweet little smile on his face.  It made me think a trip to Disneyland may be in our future!  But really everything makes me (or my sisters) think a trip to Disneyland should be in our future.

We disembarked at the pumpkin field and Owen proceeded to grab a wheel barrow and load it up with pumpkins.  Geoff leaned over to me and asked, "are we getting all those?"  I had to reply, "no, we are getting one but it makes him happy to load up the wheel barrow."  Noah, true to form, refused to walk on the uneven ground of the field.  So Geoff and I alternated carrying his chubby self until he decided to climb into a wheel barrow and got big brother to wheel him around.

LakeView Farms has a train and a boat you can take.  We have never taken the boat ride.  Owen is a little nervous of the boat and Noah has no understanding of personal safety and a love of water that just reeked of a bad combination.  We took the train back.  The train engineer, who was a very nice man, asked Owen why he didn't want to take the boat.  He then asked Owen what he was going to be for Halloween.  Owen answered a pirate and I thought about the irony of a pirate who hates boats.

We paid for our Cinderella pumpkin, which Owen told me was definitely not a Cinderella pumpkin and stared at the animals before heading to our car.  Nice little outing to the pumpkin patch.  Noah was calm and happy, Owen got to go to his favorite pumpkin patch and we just barely dodged the rain.  Perfect.