Cherry Crest Farm Animals

Back on October 31st, the kids had off school.  My parents were still here and we were looking for a corn maze to go through.  We ended up finding this place online and it was only about 25mins away.  They have a giant 5 acre corn maze but so much more as well.  We only had a few hours but you could easily spend all day there.  We decided we need to make it an annual event. For those who come visit us between July and October, lets add this to the itinerary!

We began in their animal section.  I think we could have spent all day there but had to leave after an hour or so in order to have time to do all the other things.  My favorite thing was the goats.  I just love goats.  They had teeny tiny baby ones, mid-sized ones and BIG ones.  They also had goat food for sale at a quarter a pop.  I think we must have spent $5.00 on goat food.  It was so fun to feed them.  Piper loved it too.  They also had a big ramp the goats could walk up that led to a cat walk high above our heads.  You could put the food in a little cup and spin the wheel which moved a little conveyor belt up to the cat walk.  The goats would run up there and catch the spilling contents of the cup as it turned the corner and headed back down.  The kids LOVED spinning the wheel - it was like driving a boat and the great thing about goats is that they eat EVERYTHING.  Besides the goat food, the kids were putting potato chips, grass and fallen leaves in the cup.  And the goats ate them all.

They also had sheep, pigs, bunnies and chickens.  This little guy had found a hole in his fence and was letting us know that he could come out if he wanted to.

There was also a house of peeps.  Just born peeps, some still in eggs under the warming lights.  Piper and Ainsley could have stayed all day in there.  I was a bit nervous letting these wildly excited girls hold a new born baby anything, let alone something as delicate as a chick, but for the most part they did very well.

Here's gentle Chase, cuddling it in the palms of his hands.

And here's Ainsley.  While I am smiling at her and taking this picture I am thinking

- "Please don't kill that baby bird!"

Not all the animals we played with that day were alive.  We also spent sometime on a bull.  It was fun but hard to hang on, just ask my mom.

We also played with duckies - of the rubber persuasion.  In this game each person had a water pump at the top of their track.  The rubber ducky sat at the top in a dry track.  Each person had to begin pumping their well to get water to wash their ducky down the track and across the finish line.

We really lucked out with the weather this day too.  Very warm and sunny for Oct 31st.  Because it was a Friday a lot of the other districts were NOT off school, so we lucked out that way as well.  We didn't have to wait in line for anything.   We only had about 4 hours to spend there but could have stayed much much longer.  I'll post the other activities we did in another post.