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28 Oct, 2010

Falling for Saunders Farm

Posted by andrea tomkins in: - Ottawa for kids|Easy ways to make kids happy

The kind folks at Saunders Farm (one of our newest blog patrons) graciously gave us tickets to visit. We picked a sunny day and went. 

First up, our annual pose up against the pumpkin wall:

the pumpkin wall

Next, a visit with the animals (new this year!):

Big sky pony

Baa ram ewe

We went on the hayride right away.

It’s mostly about this:

spider

… although there is also a little bit of chainsaw action:

Jason with a chainsaw

… and there may or may not be sound effects:

Sometimes it can get loud

There is a LOT to see here at Saunders. We like the mazes:

Grapevine labyrinth

It’s pretty satisfying to make it to the end:

Up here!

There is so much to do and see (this post is really not doing it justice):

Pretty here and pretty there

blue sky

Pumpkins a'plenty.

And treats to be eaten:

candy apple

So there it is! It’s a lovely place to make some memories.

How do you celebrate the season where you are?


1 Response to "Falling for Saunders Farm"

1 | Matt

July 9th, 2011 at 11:55 pm

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It’s fun in the summer too!

Brought my two and a half year old son, Charlie, to Saunders Farm today after we dropped mom off at work. SUPER FUN!! I forgot to film the wagon ride, but he loved being pulled by the tractor. We spent over 4 and a half hours there, and didn’t even go into any of the mazes. (Next time!)

One bit of advice, make sure the kids wear a shirt on the giant slide. I wasn’t thinking. The first time he went down sitting and he was fine. Of course I only filmed the second time, headfirst on his back. Ouch. That slide is awesome though, don’t let my foolishness put you off it.

We’ll definitely be going back I should have filmed more of the giant inflatable pillows. He was running from one end to the other, falling on his face at each end, then getting up and running back the other way. I had to drag him away to go on to the splash pad and to get an ice cream cone.

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