Harvest Festival

We went to the harvest festival at a turn of the century farm called Ardenwood Historic farm in Fremont. The farm has been restored to its original condition with some additional features added to it. There is a train that transports people around the farm. There were many farm animals including an aviary. There was a free tour of the Victorian house which was absolutely gorgeous. There was a blacksmith shop, a milk house, and a lot of antique farm equipment.Aoife was extremely excited about the pumpkin patch. Here's a picture of her sitting on one of the many pumpkins they grew and sold on the farm.

Here's daddy as a lady....very pretty?

Aoife loved poking her head out of the holes; it was as if she knew she looked funny.


Aoife really enjoyed climbing up and down the hay pyramid and also walking around it. She also enjoyed walking through the corn maze.
After going to the pumpkin patch, we went into the historic part of the farm. We rode the train to the corn field and walked around looking at the animals. Aoife liked the smelly pigs, but especially enjoyed the chickens. The chickens were her favorite to look at. Tim wanted to look at the cider pressing, so we watched a demo of that. We also watched how to make corn husk dolls. Tim and I got hungry and grabbed a pork rib meal. We sat down and listened to some folk music. It was such a wonderful experience. After lunch, we toured the house, and then went to the corn field to pick some popcorn and Indian corn. We had such a great day. We all enjoyed ourselves and on the way home treated ourselves to some ice-cream.