PumpkinLand

Some new wonderful friends of ours, Danniey and her boys Calvin and Linus invited us to go with their pre-school group to PumpkinLand. I was excited for the invitation.  I use to take my kids all over the place when they were younger.  Grace doesn't seem to have the same luxury, stuck at home while Mom is busy with other duties and responsibilities.   I was glad for the opportunity to take Grace on a pre-school outing.   At first it was just going to be the 5 of us, and the morning of Danniey informed me that her husband and bro-in-law would be joining us.  The more the merrier.  We all crammed into the ghetto green van.  It was cold in the morning but lucky for us it warmed up. 

Grace playing around with the squash.

 There were some very impressive pumpkins!

Danniey and Linus

Calvin and Grace

At first the excursion was a tad disappointing.  Tons and tons of other pre-schools and schools were swarming the playground and pumpkin patches.  I was quickly reminded of why my children and I were the first ones on scene and the first ones to leave.  We finally found the "wonder"land.  Places for the kids to crawl, and jump, climb and discover animals that bite.  After a little while we found the corn maze.  We were the only ones there and it was awesome.  Grace discovered that if you followed the headless monster, you could find your way out. 

We all packed lunches and by the time it was lunch all the other school had excited and we had the place almost to ourselves.  Grace and Calvin were able to play freely on the playground and we adult had fun chatting and eating our juvenile lunch of pb & j.