An Afternoon At The Pumpkin Patch, Part I

I hope this is Part I -- Jordan was too sick to go, and Avery, Kate, & I just needed some fresh air in the sunshine. Hopefully we'll get nice enough weather over the next couple of weeks to go again to our favorite pumpkin patch on Sauvie Island in Portland. But for a quick afternoon jaunt, this one a couple miles from our house in Vancouver was good enough (but boy were they crowded for a weekday afternoon, I thought).

Avery in the hay maze

Kate in the haystack
Kate at the pumpkin slingshot
BFFs on the haystack
BFFs at the hay maze
The haystack, swarming with kids (a boyscout troop in yellow t-shirts)
Tractor rides
Avery's favorite attraction (I had to drag her away) -- Jasper the donkey (although she calls him Tonopah, which is our old burro's name, and who, at ~35 years of age, now lives with my old friend Rami & her horse Jessie in Oldtown, Idaho)
Kate made friends with this nice bunny
Once we got out of the animal feeding & petting area we stumbled on the pony rides. Avery rode Major
Kate rode Ginger
Finally it was off to the pumpkin patch out in the back 40. We got to take a hayride to get there, and we each got to pick a pumpkin to take home.
The end was near when Avery got sad for the (dead) sunflower head that Kate moved away from it's "friends" -- sometimes tired just hits all at once, and with no rhyme or reason. . . .
Hitchin' a ride on the wagon back to the main farm
The wagon loading area
Avery & her gi-normous pumpkin (I could barely manhandle the dang thing) on the wagon ride back. Kate picked a very nice, reasonable one -- but not Avery -- the bigger the better!
An overview of the corn maze. We didn't go, as we heard it takes about 45 minutes WITH the map & no wrong turns!