This weekend was a busy one! Friday evening Anthony surprised us by coming home for the weekend. I knew he was planning on coming home for Halloween, but didn't know he was planning on this past weekend. His friend was driving home, and so Anthony thought why not just go home and catch a ride with him. I'm super glad he did, I was able to take family photos Saturday morning (despite the rain), we were finally able to get to the pumpkin patch. Sunday we carved pumpkins with my mom and sister.
The weather was drizzly off and on, which was totally annoying after it had just been super nice the entire week. At least the wind was chill for the most part. Molly made other plans with some girl friends which made me upset, as I had really wanted the whole family together for the pumpkin patch, but it is what it is. So I kinda already started Saturday out grumpy. However, I invited my friend Kristen to come along, and she said yes, and I feel like that made all the difference in me being able to just roll with it all, instead of crashing and burning, lol. And, of course, I was happy to have Anthony home.
Listen, I'm normally not one to complain, but I can't help it this time. This was definitely not my favorite pumpkin patch experience. Usually Packer Orchards is amazing, but I was really disappointed this time. Not all of it their fault, but still. Since it had been raining, everything was wet and muddy, which made having fun on the slides and other things not possible. Literally everything was coated in mud and the whole place was just a mud fest. I get it, they can't control the weather. Timothy even slipped and fell and got his whole side covered in mud, which was super fun. And I don't know what happened, but their corn hardly grew this year, so the maze was....not a maze. You could see over the whole thing, hahaha, like what!? I can't believe I hadn't heard anyone else complain about it yet! So corn maze was a bust. They also didn't have any fresh food going, which they always do, so I was SO bummed not to get anything there for lunch. And we were so hungry! On top of that, since it was the last weekend before Halloween and the end of their season, they had taken all the pumpkins out of the patch and just put them all in one area. Not as much fun as actually running through a patch and picking out own.
I get some of it....our fault for not being able to go on a nicer weekend and earlier in the month. However, we still paid the $20 to get in, and I definitely felt like it wasn't worth it. At all. That's what makes me truly upset. That's a lot for a cover price as it is, and money is tight. To not be able to do any of the things there, or have them be run down and lame.....maybe charge half the price for your last weekend with a half grown corn maze, no food being cooked like normal, no patch to actually go in, and everything wet and muddy. Kristen said she hadn't been to a pumpkin patch in years, and I told her that this wasn't a great representation of what it normally was like, lol.
In any case, bitching aside, we made the best of our misadventure. Cause what else was there to do? The rain stopped and sun eventually came out, so that was a plus. We walked around, wandered through the non-corn maze, the boys played in the corn pit, and we filled a wheelbarrow up with pumpkins (and then had to transfer everything over to a new wheelbarrow as the first had a tire pop seconds into pushing it).
