You've just got to see it to believe it! Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm has put together an amazing
Pumplin Fest. They must have had a great time thinking about how to make it the most spectacular fall festival around. Our homeschool group gathered there today. We pretty much had the whole place to ourselves, perhaps because of the combination of it being a school day, and and one of those funny Portland days when it looks like it might rain but never actually does. This is also their very first year of hosting a Pumpkin Fest, and word must not have gotten around about it. We were treated like royalty! They have a great hay maze inside a fortress, a wonderful corn maze, and a smaller hay maze to be navigated on tricycles. You can get to all three in your choice of a hay wagon or a cow train. The cow train route actually includes a wild ride through the cornfield! Their playground includes the very popular rubber duckie water pump races, a hay playground with slides that our kids discovered is perfect for hide and seek, tire swings fashioned into horses, a slide which has rollers all along its length (grownups shouldn't miss this one!), toy calves to lasso, and some amazing paintball and potato guns. Our kids had a really wonderful time. And I was thrilled to discover that they sell their bulbs individually inside their gift shop, just in time for fall planting! I'm always wanting a nice variety of bulbs even though I have a small space for planting, but keep finding them for sale in bulk quantities only. This was my chance to actually pick out a dozen different colors, that will surprise us by blooming at different times. This definitely gets my vote for Best Playground! I only wish it wasn't just once a year. Check it out before it's over:
http://www.woodenshoe.com/pumpkin-fest/
You've just got to see it to believe it! Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm has put together an amazing Pumplin Fest. They must have had a great time thinking about how to make it the most spectacular fall festival around. Our homeschool group gathered there today. We pretty much had the whole place to ourselves, perhaps because of the combination of it being a school day, and and one of those funny Portland days when it looks like it might rain but never actually does. This is also their very first year of hosting a Pumpkin Fest, and word must not have gotten around about it. We were treated like royalty! They have a great hay maze inside a fortress, a wonderful corn maze, and a smaller hay maze to be navigated on tricycles. You can get to all three in your choice of a hay wagon or a cow train. The cow train route actually includes a wild ride through the cornfield! Their playground includes the very popular rubber duckie water pump races, a hay playground with slides that our kids discovered is perfect for hide and seek, tire swings fashioned into horses, a slide which has rollers all along its length (grownups shouldn't miss this one!), toy calves to lasso, and some amazing paintball and potato guns. Our kids had a really wonderful time. And I was thrilled to discover that they sell their bulbs individually inside their gift shop, just in time for fall planting! I'm always wanting a nice variety of bulbs even though I have a small space for planting, but keep finding them for sale in bulk quantities only. This was my chance to actually pick out a dozen different colors, that will surprise us by blooming at different times. This definitely gets my vote for Best Playground! I only wish it wasn't just once a year. Check it out before it's over: http://www.woodenshoe.com/pumpkin-fest/
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