Pumpkin fun

Yesterday was a field trip to Cox's Farm. It was only about 25 minutes away and Faith's class and my class joined together for a fun trip. I went in to wake up Faith yesterday morning and asked if she was ready to put on her Rainbow t-shirt. I have never seen her jump out of bed so fast. Cox's Farm is over 90 acres of fun including fresh cider, apples, farm animals, slides of all sizes, wooden cutouts to poke your head in, music to dance to, and a hayrides. Luckily because so many parents went we were able to split the children up into groups of one chaperone and two or three children. Faith went we me and I took one of my children along also. They had fun climbing the huge hills to get to the top. On occasion Faith would slide down the hill. I don't know if that was because she didn't want to put her apple down so she was trying to hold her apple and climb. When we first got there she had never seen so many fun things. She quickly forgot their were so many people there and she became lost and I watched all my children too. She wandered to another part of the train to climb on not realizing that she didn't know where I was. When she found me she held on and just cried. I quickly realized that her Rainbow shirt needed to be on the outside of her jacket to make her feel safer. That really helped because everyone had on jackets for fall. She blended in. Although she was scared we did alot better when we split the group. Before we left we had the opportunity to take a hayride around the farm. Along the way there were silly wooden cutouts such as ghosts, pumpkins, three bears, George Bush, Dracula, Little Red Riding Hood, Dora, Sponge Bob, and many others. At one point the tractor driver went through the water and pretended she was stuck backing up and going forward again. Then this big man came out with a big head mask and pretended to pull us out. We went through a haunted covered bridge that started with scarey music only to quickly turn to party music. It was really cute and I wish we could have stayed longer. Although there were 20 school buses there the farm was big enough that it didn't feel clustered at all. Faith had fun and of course tried to fall asleep on the bus but that was quickly stopped by her teacher. Bless her. Otherwise she would have been tired all night.