Remlinger Farms

On Saturday the weather was beautiful so Phil and I took Hayden to Remlinger Farms. It was the first weekend of their Fall Harvest Festival.


He did not like the lines. Since the weather was so nice and it was the first weekend of the festival, the place was packed. We almost didn't even go because admission is $15.25 per person, including any children over 1. I think that stinks that even the kiddos get charged the same price. Lines and over-priced admission were the 2 low-points of the farm. The rest was great.

When we first entered the farm, there was an old school bus and an old fire engine, full size for the kids to climb all in and out of. Hayden was in heaven!


Then we went on a pony ride. Hayden wasn't so sure about riding the horse. When I first put him on, he was fine, but once the pony started walking, he got kind of freaked out and wanted off. So I carried him for a little bit and we walked along side the pony until he got more comfortable. Then I tried putting him back on the pony and he loved it! It took us around a little trail through tall bushes, and when the ride was over, he continued rocking on the horse and making his horse noise. So cute!


The sad part is that I lost his hat somewhere on that little trail and the horse people weren't being very cooperative in letting me look for it, so the rest of the day he went without a hat. :(

After the ponies, Hayden went on this little canoe ride that he didn't seemed too thrilled with. He was just a little confused about the experience. By the time he got comfortable with it, the ride was over.


Then we went on the steam-train ride that went all around the park for about a 15 minute loop. Hayden really enjoyed that! The train blew steam and tooted the horn several times. Remlinger Farms did a nice job setting up little scenes along the train ride, almost like a Pirates of the Caribbean-type ride. At the end it went through a dark tunnel with glowing eyes on the wall and surprisingly, Hayden wasn't scared at all! Of course we talked to him, held him close, and laughed about the "scary" things so hopefully that helped.

We also did the petting zoo and met up with a family from PEPS and had lunch with them. Hayden wasn't all that interested in the petting zoo animals. He was fine to look at them, but didn't want to touch them. He did like his first cheeseburger and fries, though!

Phil took Hayden into this big hay pit for some fun jumping. Under the hay was a trampoline-type surface so it was super bouncy and all the kids in there were having so much fun rolling jumping around in all the hay.



After lunch, we waited in another long line to ride on the antique car ride. Hayden got to drive the car and thought that was very cool! By the end of the ride we could tell he'd had just about enough fun for the day. Even though it was sunny, he was very cold (especially without his hat!), it was about an hour past his nap time, and he was losing patience with long lines. So we called it quits and headed home.


There was a lot more we could have done, but didn't have the time. We missed getting a nice family photo or any shots of Hayden with the pumpkins. He really protested posing for the camera since there were so many fun things to do and explore. I don't blame him! We still need to get pumpkins, so maybe we'll go to another pumpkin patch (that's free!) to get pumpkins and photo-ops before Halloween.