Fabulous Fall

What a terrific weekend we had! On Saturday morning Mandi, JT and Jackson came over and we took the kids to the Children's Museum's Haunted House...Skeletown. This was the first time I had ever been to their haunted house...and probably the first haunted house I'd been to since I was in high school! We went during their special "lights on" hours so it wasn't as frightening. Each room we went through was done up with skeletons visiting some famous Indianapolis place. There was a Colts room, an IMA room and various other rooms highlighting all the fun and family friendly things to do in the city. I carried curious Jack through...not because he was scared but because he wanted to explore every nook and cranny possible and we had to keep the line moving. But he did a great job!

What? We're going to a haunted house? SWEET!

Finishing up at the end of Skeletown

Sitting with Skele

That was fun!

We had packed lunches to eat at the Museum and after we filled our bellies we headed over to Waterman's Farm to pick some pumpkins and partake in their fall festival. We'd never been to this place before, but went on a recommendation from one of Jason's work friends. Actually, it was Gretchen aka "the goil's" mom. Jack played with Karis (the goil) while we were at Jason's work conference in Brown County.

Jack and Jackson seemed to have tons of fun running through the corn maze (or the maize maze as Jason kept calling it),

crawling through the straw tunnel and climbing the straw mountain,

and climbing in giant tires.

We took a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch and after looking at every pumpkin there Jack finally decided on a pumpkin to carry back to the wagon.

There was tons to do there including watching a giant mechanical T-Rex smash pumpkins in it's mouth...but to me it seemed to be lacking that "pumpkin patch" feel. The pumpkins were laid out on hard dirt to make the patch and there was no area where you could take that classic "pumpkin patch picture". You know the one where the kids are surrounded by nothing but pumpkins. Jason liked this place better because there were more activities so we'll see where we end up next year. Maybe we'll try another place! Each year we'll just experience a new pumpkin patch until we find that "perfect" one!