Nottawa Fruit Farm

We decided to go to the Nottawa Fruit Farm in Michigan today, even though it was a little bit chilly outside. Now that I have every other weekend off, I've really been looking forward to being able to go to a pumpkin patch with Hadley on a Saturday this year...so that's exactly what we did! We invited Grandma Kim and Aunt Shelby to come along. I think we all had a great time hanging out and watching Hadley.

I love how Minnie Mouse was included in the hand holding!

Aunt Shelby, the horse whisperer...it was impressive to watch!

The pumpkin patch had quite a few activities set up at different stops along the hayride. Hadley did really well, winning the "ring around the characters", catching a balloon in the air tent, braving the hay tunnel and digging out a dinosaur egg.

Hadley never caught on to how to pedal the tractor, but we made it into "Santa's Station" anyways. Yep, that's what was written above the door on the other side of the yellow mini barn.

I love the lighting in the picture I took while we were walking through the corn maze. You can definitely tell this is for little kids...a few random cut-out characters and lots of corn.

I was a little disappointed in the pumpkin patch today. The Fashion Farm, that we went to last October, had an actual pumpkin patch that you could walk out into and pick out your pumpkin. This one had them laying out in the grass. Oh well, Hadley still enjoyed picking out a nice pretty big orange pumpkin!

So many to choose from...

...and the winner is: Hadley! On the third and final spin in the "ring around the characters" game, Hadley won with Donald Duck.

They had an air tent set up in the barn and you had to try and catch a balloon. Hadley was about the only one to catch one, and she was pretty upset when they made her give it back. I guess they have a limited number of balloons!

They did give her a pretty cool spider ring though.

Aunt Shelby took Hadley through the hay maze and they both thought it was pretty neat. Hadley especially liked getting to explore with a flashlight.

After the hay maze we went to little shelter where the kids got to throw a ping pong ball at fish bowls. If the ball landed in a bowl, they would win a real fish. I was happy to know that Hadley probably wouldn't win, because I didn't want to take a fish home.