I Dig a Pony

(title is a Beatles song, in case you don't know it. I kept getting it in my head whenever I looked toward the pony)
Today we went to the same farm that we discovered last year. It was as good as I'd remembered. The feel of a family farm (and the family was full of well-behaved, polite children) without having to, you know, live and work on a farm the rest of the year! The girls rode the pony:

We visited the other animals, our favorite being the goat named Jasmine (can't figure out why she was our favorite, though!)

We went on a hayride pulled by two horses. Last year they took us around the farm, over to the pumpkin patch, where we picked our own pumpkins. But it's been too wet, so we took a ride down the street and back. Not quite as exciting but still fun!


Then back to the farm for cider and to pick out pumpkins from the ones they'd brought in from the fields.

Jasmine had to intersperse everything we did with a run through the straw maze in one of the barns (no pictures of that!) It was the thing she remembered most clearly from last year and definitely her favorite thing again this year!
Bekah decided she was done after awhile and asked Josh if we could "go to our home now." So we put her in the wagon and let her rest for a minute while Jasmine ran through the maze one more time.
We did a little more before we went home (Bekah got her second wind) and she got a chance to do what became her favorite thing today: "the spinny fing." (the antique corn grinder they got to try)
I got a picture of Jasmine that we're calling "What are we going to do with her when she's a teen?" We think a burqa is in order.