On Saturday we returned to the Stone Barns Harvest Fest for the third year in a row. We enjoyed all of the yummy food vendors and the music - the kids danced together and with me - and the "farm olympics" - we raced holding eggs on spoons, had a mommy vs daddy sack race, and threw rubber chickens at hay bales. The kids were impressed by the whole pigs roasting on spits. Pics below and in the October web album.
On Sunday we drove over the bridge to Nyack. We spent some time at the local playground and browsed the craft booths at the street fair. After naps, Seb biked and I walked with Liesl to Dobbs Ferry, arriving at the playground just in time for the rain to start. The children were undaunted, but we called Steve to rescue us from the hike home. We went out to a Korean restaurant for dinner, Korean being the children's favorite ethnic cuisine at the moment. They both love bibambap and Korean mandoo dumplings, and Seb likes japchae. And of course, as in any vaguely Asian restaurant, there is rice and edamame, so they never starve.
Steve had to work on Monday, but I drove up north to a great little section of the North County Trail. It's an old rail trail - flat and paved - and there's a beautiful pedestrian bridge stretching over the Croton Reservoir. Seb rode his bike and I ran with Liesl in the Bob stroller. And then it was just a short hop to Muscoot Farm, where we got up close and personal with chickens, pigs, cows, goats, sheep, ducks, and pumpkins!! We brought home a nice big pumpkin to carve, and Liesl picked out a tiny one to call her own. After naps we baked pumpkin muffins and made a batch of granola bars.
All told, an excellent long weekend, except that Steve brought home a nasty little stomach virus from the west coast. It has gone through our whole family and made things kind of stinky around here. (I know, I know, a terrible way to end a post...)
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