Oct 04 2008
We Rode The Moo-Choo At The County Line Orchard
We took the kids to the County Line Orchard last weekend for Pumpkin Days. Aiden loved it last year, and he really enjoyed it this time too. The trick is to get there early to avoid the crowds, especially on the weekends. A tiny petting zoo is no fun when it’s packed with two hundred soccer moms, colliding double strollers and battalions of sugared-up children. We were lucky, and the line for the Moo-Choo was miraculously short.
We have never been in the Moo-Choo before. It’s basically a row of plastic drums, each with wheels and a cow head attached to it, tethered together and pulled by a tractor. The tractor leads the fake cow cars along a path through the woods and part of the apple orchard. The path was decorated with Halloween stuff and some of the trees were adorned with big happy faces. I pointed things out for Aiden, and he craned to look at them.
Because we got there just as they opened, we got to talk one-on-one with some of the animal guides that were there. There was a girl with a rabbit and some sort of fluffy baby bird. She was nice enough to get down close to Aiden and let him pet the baby rabbit. He loves rabbits, and always points them out in our yard. He rarely gets to touch one, however. There were plenty of animals for Aiden to interact with at the petting zoo though.
We even got to see Peter the Pumpkin Eater, a huge dragon with light-up eyes that talked (and sang!). Peter is usually sleeping when we visit. Speaking of sleeping, Gavin slept through most of the outing in the Baby Bjorn, but he did wake up long enough for Chrissy to feed him. We didn’t want to be lost in the corn maze with a tiny baby, so we skipped that this year. After the petting zoo, we bought a few dozen fresh pumpkin donuts (an annual tradition) and then headed home.
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Aiden, animals, apple orchard, corn maze, Hobart, petting zoo, pumpkins
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