I had remembered hearing how a nearby park that we visit often had a Nature Play Area, but I had no idea where it was located! I finally thought to ask an employee at the Nature Center, and she gave me directions to it. It was funny because we had been right next to it a hundred times but didn't realize it was there! It was mostly just some fun little activities made from the trees. The kids thought it was pretty cool!
Every year the Youth Assistance program in our town puts on a free fall festival. We like to attend it for a bit (this year it fell on the first Saturday of October.) I didn't think it was as well done as years past (before they had some carnival games set up with free prizes, this year was just bounce houses and air brush tattoos), but the kids did enjoy getting to jump! (Though it was a VERY hot and muggy day!) They had some of the high school football players there and one of the activities was to race a football player! Each person stood at the starting line and threw a football through a hula hoop. Then they ran through an inflatable house that had tunnels and a slide and whoever made it out first was the winner! Eli raced them several times. He usually won! ;)
One of the kids' favorite places to visit (since we first went there on Clara's birthday) is Prancing Ponies! We made a couple of trips there in the fall. They have such specific hours (only open Thursdays and Fridays for a few hours in the day), so I took Eli out of school one day for a few hours so he could come play with us!
Round Two!
The KIDS love playing games! ;) Here they were playing Don't Break the Ice.
We've been members of Conner Prairie for years, but have never attended the event there called Headless Horseman. I always thought it was just a haunted hayride. I failed to realize there were lots of other activities, too! So we went this year and skipped out on the pumpkin patch trip (which I regret doing, the pumpkin skipping that is).
First off, to guarantee a spot on an early hayride (before it gets dark), you have to come and stand in line at 5:00 pm. Gates don't open til 6:00 pm. So I stood in line for an entire hour (without David). This was during Clara's super-hugging phase, so she kept running off giving squeezes to random kids. That was not a pleasant experience to say the least.
We played a couple activities before it was time to get on our hayride.
The kids were OBSESSED with this corn kernel playpen! They rolled around all over it like puppies. It sure made their clothes dusty!
Clara's face shows that she was a bit nervous for the hayride. But she was mostly all smiles!
We spent almost the rest of the night in this darn cornfield! We went on a JUNIOR scavenger hunt and it was ridiculously impossible! I felt like the years were just draining from my body, that's how miserable it was. We somehow ended up getting separated, Clara with David, Ezra and me, and Eli on his own. Finally I just gave up and eventually found an exit and we waited for the others to do the same. I have no desire to ever enter that corn maze again!
Our tradition in November is to write thankful leaves (ideally they should go on a Thankful Tree, but they ended up just covering the wall in the kitchen). Eli really went all-out this year and included a leaf for the entire Solar System and for every person and event at his school. Good to be thankful!
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