A Nice Fall Day at a Pumpkin Patch

After church today my family and I spent 2 hours at a pumpkin patch in Pomona which is about 30 minutes from our house. It was the first time we visited a real pumpkin patch. All the other years we have gone to "commercial" pumpkin patches. (The commercial ones were fun to visit but a real one was a lot more fun.)We parked at a student lot at the Cal Poly campus and walked about 10-15 minutes to the pumpkin patch. We could have taken a shuttle to the patch but decided that it would take a little too long to wait for one. We had a nice walk together through the campus. We had a great time walking around the the patch looking at the all the different pumpkins.

The kids each found a pumpkin that they liked and took a picture with it. Only Kylie however wanted to purchase one. Here is a pumpkin that we liked.

Before leaving the patch we took a picture as a family and with just the two of on the haystacks in the middle of the patch.

We also took a picture of some very pretty sunflowers.

Then we walked around the outside of the patch where they had different food booths. Since it was pretty warm today we enjoyed a cup of pina colda and fresh squeezed orange juice. They sure helped re-energize us for the rest of our afternoon. Then we were off to the ranch store where we saw some gigantic pumpkins,
strawberry corn and baby corn,

barley, and many variety of unique looking squashes.



It's pretty cool how God created such unique looking ones. We also so Tony the Tiger, the mascot for the patch.

After our nice afternoon at the pumpkin patch we went on an errand. Then we went out to dinner at a Japanese restaurant before we headed home.