Black Island Farms 2014

The day before Louis' birthday we went to Black Island Farms for the second year in a row.  It was again so much fun!  We started by taking a tractor ride to the pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin.  Along the way we stopped and they taught the kids about how carrots and cabbage grow.  

Avery enjoyed picking out the perfect pumpkin and Mary loved all of the dirt to play in.  She really knows how to find dirt.

After everyone picked their pumpkins and was back on the trailer the workers brought over a sunflower and explained why they have them planted around the fields.  They plant them so the birds will eat the sunflowers instead of the pumpkins and other plants.  After they talked about it the worker gave the sunflower to someone on the trailer.  Avery was a little sad she didn't get the sunflower so the nice worker picked a flower from one of the pumpkin vines and gave it to her.

After getting our pumpkins into the car we headed in to look at the animals.

There was a very friendly donkey that thought we had food to share and bit Mary a little bit.

The goose once again honked back and forth with Avery.  I loved it!

After the animals we went over to the slides and spent a lot of time there.  The kids all loved it.

We only left the slides once some older kids came around and were being annoying.

As in sitting on the tops of the slides and blocking them off so no one could go down.

Where were their parents?  Who knows.

This is when our camera died so the rest of the pictures are from my phone.

After the slides we went over to jump in some old tank that was painted like a ghost.  Then over to the train.  Mary wasn't interested in riding the train so her and Louis went back over to some slides. 

 Avery got to ride on the train all by herself!  She's getting to be such a big girl.

During Avery's train ride Mary came and laid in my lap to eat her sandwich and we knew it was time to go so she could nap!  We were sad to go, but had so much fun together!