Harvest Festival

This last weekend was fairly nice weather and we decided to go back to Green Bluffs for the Harvest Festival.  Green Bluffs has a bunch of farms and we went to two different ones to enjoy the harvest festival activities.  The first one had lots of animals for people to see.

Whitney liked to shake the fence by the geese.  We tried to get Whitney to 'honk' like geese do, but I guess she thought that was too much like a car  and wouldn't say it.

This is the best picture we could get of Whitney feeding the mountain goats.  There were three goats and Whitney loved feeding them.  There was a big tree in the goat's pen and all the lower leaves had been chewed off by the goats, but Will was able to grab a couple of higher leaves.  We were careful to make sure her fingers weren't too close to the leaves edge so the goat couldn't nibble on her fingers.  The goats were interesting to watch; they like eating and eating.

Whitney loved the little ponies.  The ponies were the perfect size for Whitney, only about four feet tall or something.  I don't know if they get any bigger or what kind of little horses they were but they were very friendly.  Whitney liked petting the ponies; whenever we tried to leave the animal area, she kept trying to go back.  We will have to find a petting zoo or something else in Spokane so Whitney can touch more animals.

This is us in the hay maze for children.  Whitney walked around it for a little while, but then she seemed to get tired and just wanted to get out.  So we just climbed out the edge.  I did not know that hay is poky but I got a couple scratches on my legs just from climbing over the bales.

Three...Two...One...Blast off baby.  Whitney got to be part of the cannon as she stuck her head in the hole.  Will stuck his head in too to show Whitney how to do it, but I wasn't fast enough at getting a picture.  Oh well.  I think Whitney liked looking at the picture below her too much to look at the camera.

There was a big pumpkin patch where people could go in to select their own pumpkins.  I stayed out with the stroller because I didn't want to accidentally squish any pumpkins, but Will and Whitney walked around looking for a good pumpkin for us.  We just wanted a small one because it is actually cheaper to buy them at the store, but Whitney had a fun time finding a pumpkin.

I call it our Charlie Brown pumpkin because it is a bit misshapen and slightly funny looking, but it needed a loving home.  So we will give it that love, until we cut it with a sharp knife and pull out its insides.  Oh well.  Good thing pumpkins have no feelings.  Now we just need a good idea of something to carve.

We went to a huge seven acre corn maze at another farm.  It got really dark while we were in the maze and Whitney didn't like it very much.  I guess she is too young.  So we were in the maze for an hour and decided it was too hard, especially with a slightly grumpy toddler.  Luckily, we found a little side exit and were able to get out.  We will have to wait a couple of years before we try another corn maze.  But it was still fun.  Anyway, it was a great day.  And a fun harvest festival.