Today is Ed’s birthday and he wanted to spend it doing something special with all of us, so we headed north about an hour to a place called Fair Oaks Farm. I knew a little about it between the website and what Mom had said on her brief visit with my nephew. I certainly didn’t expect that we would spend all day there…and it was a very enjoyable time.
We saw the pigs first. To give you a small idea of how many pigs we actually saw, that farm has 80,000 pigs born there every year. I’m sure we didn’t see anything close to 80,000; but there were certainly more pigs there than I had ever seen! Next we went back to the main area where we had lunch and the kids bounced on the huge “pillow” (as Emry called it), rode the train, ran through the hay maze, peddled tractors and finally went into the cow barn to play for a while before taking a bus over to the dairy farm – a huge production that not only produces countless gallons of milk every hour of the day but also enough manure (and so methane) to power itself. Back at the farm, we wiled away playing even more, picking apples, and eating ice cream. As there were quite a few things we didn’t do (like see a calf born), we will be going back…especially since it was just as economical to buy a year membership…which we did.
Spider Pig…Spider Man!
Emry signed the cow.
Ethan and the pigs.
Emry loved the low ropes course.
Taking a tractor ride to the apple orchard.
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