After a feast of banana pancakes and a visit from the turkeys, Bernadette and Miles headed out with us to a craft fair where Bernadette's friend Tara was working. Well, we found so much to do on the way we barely made it to the craft fair and Tara was already gone.
We found a corn maze, that Yves was not willing to pass up.
It is in the amazing shape of Henry Hudson's Mayflower to celebrate the 400th anniversary. A farmer comes around each year with his tractor and GPS and creates the maze. The part we liked is that his whole family comes with him from field to field.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/nj_farms_try_corn_mazes_to_bol.html
We had some disagreement about how to discover the maze so Lucien armed with my cell phone branched out on his own, preferring not to use the map. The rest of us followed Yves as he led us through the smaller portion. There were six stations with different stamps to punch out our cards.
We saved the larger portion for a return trip. Too bad we didn't realize the night before as the moon was full and bright and the maze was open until midnight just for the full moon! We have until Halloween, possibly into November to get back and finish the maze.
This is feed corn. The tassels were an incredible color.
A road side farmer's market.
A field of wild flowers.
Then we were distracted by a U-Pick. The raspberries were wonderful. Yves, Lucien and I picked a few for lunch.
We all had a lovely picnic with guacamole, carrot cake baked by Yves and company, and raspberries. Gael, Lucien, Miles, Yves and Gabriel.
A run around the field, some hide and seek.
And finally the craft fair, near New Paltz. The children were enchanted with many things. Everyone loved the sprinklers. Though I think Gael and Miles really loved the wooden guns with elastic bands to shoot ping pong balls.
We found a corn maze, that Yves was not willing to pass up.
It is in the amazing shape of Henry Hudson's Mayflower to celebrate the 400th anniversary. A farmer comes around each year with his tractor and GPS and creates the maze. The part we liked is that his whole family comes with him from field to field.http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/nj_farms_try_corn_mazes_to_bol.html
We had some disagreement about how to discover the maze so Lucien armed with my cell phone branched out on his own, preferring not to use the map. The rest of us followed Yves as he led us through the smaller portion. There were six stations with different stamps to punch out our cards.
We saved the larger portion for a return trip. Too bad we didn't realize the night before as the moon was full and bright and the maze was open until midnight just for the full moon! We have until Halloween, possibly into November to get back and finish the maze.
This is feed corn. The tassels were an incredible color.
A road side farmer's market.
A field of wild flowers.
Then we were distracted by a U-Pick. The raspberries were wonderful. Yves, Lucien and I picked a few for lunch.
We all had a lovely picnic with guacamole, carrot cake baked by Yves and company, and raspberries. Gael, Lucien, Miles, Yves and Gabriel.
A run around the field, some hide and seek.
And finally the craft fair, near New Paltz. The children were enchanted with many things. Everyone loved the sprinklers. Though I think Gael and Miles really loved the wooden guns with elastic bands to shoot ping pong balls.On leaving there was a lot of traffic but we had a lovely drive back to NY.
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