Tuesday, January 17, 2017

2016 Pumpkin Patch - Center Grove Orchard

As a slight variation to our normal two pumpkin farms,  this year we decided to try out Center Grove Orchard near Cambridge, Iowa.

It is very similar in many ways to both Geisler Farms by Ankeny and Carrolls (now called Uncle Bills Farm) by Grinnell, Iowa.

This place makes their own deli sandwiches and soups so we had a quick lunch before we headed out for fun and frolic!


Always a fun thing that quickly deteriorates into a nasty game of King Of The Mountain.  Robby is about dead-center in that photo, white sweatshirt, dark pants with a stripe down the leg.  Caleb is that little blue heap that you can barely see behind Rob. 

This was cool.  It's a really long slide where you lay on an old gunny sack.  That's Rob in this first run.

And that's Caleb in the yellow shirt with his arms straight out and smiling.

Our kids are not visible...  but this was kind of neat too.  It's a maze of hay bales but mostly kids just got a running start and tried to make it all the way across without a horrible crash.  We saw a couple of horrible crashes!

The gigantic spider web which surprisingly, kept the varmints engaged for a lot longer than I thought it would.

But the favorite is almost always the big corn pit, and this was a BIG corn pit!!

One must do several leaps into the corn if they're to truly enjoy the pit.

One must also be buried in the corn, while constantly berating his brother that he was not burying him correctly.

Nearly covered and resting wonderfully while a happy Chinaman seeks praise for his fine work.

Rubber ducky races...

This was a bit of a let down at this place. The corn maze.  Turns out that we didn't get the map we were supposed to have to navigate the silly thing.  Once we got about 2.5 miles of walking in and had no idea where we were at, we decided to head back East and go do something else.

That something else was the train ride, which was nice because we got to rest after all of that walking in the corn field.

Happy boy!

And we finished up the day with a wagon ride out thru the actual pumpkin patch.

Interesting to note, we did not get any pumpkins this year and did not go trick or treating either.  Neither lad seemed very interested in either.

No comments:

Post a Comment