Pumpkin Play

Abi and I spent yesterday morning at Nauman's Pumpkin Farm.  We started with the giant corn maze, working our way in from the entrance, but we could not finish and eventually found our way back out the entrance. Abi was not impressed by dead ends and just wanted to give up. I enticed her to try some more several times, but eventually grew tired of having to convince her.  Plus, there was other fun stuff to explore.

Rope maze and a few of the pumpkins laid out to choose from. Emphasis on a few.

We did successfully complete the rope maze.
And there was much fun to be had bouncing and jumping on the bouncy-hay.  I'm not sure what was under that blue tarp under the hay, but it was much like jumping on a giant water bed.

Plus, there was simply the hay border to run around on, pose, dance, etc.

These were the poses she asked me to photograph.
She also had fun climbing in the straw pile behind.
But most of her time was spent climbing the hill and sliding down the long tubes. Over and over again. Fortunately, I could just wait at the bottom. (I did slide down twice with her and I can say, twice was enough for my butt. It's not as corrugated inside as out, but there's a little waviness inside.)

The tunnels behind and up the hill.

Top of the tunnel

Really, really fun!

We tried the corn maze again later, starting from the exit, but still couldn't make it all the way through and once again retraced our way back to the way we entered.
Before leaving we chose a pumpkin to carve for our jack o'lantern.  Plus Abi got a mini one to draw a face on. Also picked up a couple of cooking squashes - unique varieties of course. Batwing and something 'warted'.  There is an amazing variety there of squashes and pumpkins.