Avery/Raab adventures: Lakeview Farms

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Lakeview Farms

On Saturday afternoon, after both kids played in soccer games (and I went to a work event for a couple hours), we ventured out to Lakeview Farms. We've visited that particular pumpkin patch every single year since we moved to Portland and didn't want to let our busy fall schedule deter us from the pilgrimage. But of course, even though it's been the most beautiful and dry October in memory and was sunny all morning, just as we had the time to head out, it started to sprinkle. And then it started to drizzle, and then rain, and then pour. We were undaunted; or rather, Liesl was undaunted, and since it was her birthday, we were all along for the ride. We got soaked but didn't give up halfway -- we did the full corn maze, getting all 5 stamps and earning our prizes (candy and popcorn), and then we did the whole pumpkin patch shebang - ride the train, get a wheelbarrow and select pumpkins, ride the ferry back. We picked five enormous pumpkins. It was ridiculous and funny and so fun to be together.

Jasper loved the corn maze. It was like a giant Easter egg hunt for him - he kept finding and eating ears of corn, chasing after us, dashing through the mud, tail wagging madly.

I think this photo really captures the quantity of rain that's falling as we carefully study the corn maze map and decide where to next go in search of the next hole-punch station.

Happy, muddy, wet Jasper.

I entertained the idea that we might head home after the corn maze -- which we completed in record time this year -- but Liesl and Sebastian were set on the rides. So we got on the train - dog and all - and traveled out to the field of pumpkins. Jasper was not happy about the moving train.