Cox Farms 2012

This year Jon and I went to Cox Farms by ourselves.  It was a lot of fun going down the slides and doing the fun things the farm has to offer, just the two of us on a date.  It brought back a lot of memories.  We started going to Cox Farms years ago, when our kids were much younger.  We've taken our grandkids in more recent years.  Our two youngest sons both work there now, and each of them have worked for Cox Farms during their Fall Festival for many years.  It hasn't always been at the same time, but this year they are both employed there.  Josiah also works Friday and Saturday nights at their Fields of Fear.  Jon and I have no interest in the scary stuff, so we've never seen our son in that role.

The Cox Farm Fall Festival is held during a beautiful time of year, of course, and the weather was very pleasant today.  The fall colors in a farm setting are somehow extra special.

The photo below is a bird's eye view of part of the farm, taken from the top of the Dino Slide.  It's my favorite slide, maybe because it is fairly high up.  It's a lot of fun to slide down from there.  Sometimes you even get a little airborne while sliding down.

Before guests leave, they get to choose a small pumpkin, but the farm also sells much larger ones, and in many different varieties, such as these:

Although Josiah doesn't have his dragon puppet with him in the picture below, he and Jordan both take their Renaissance puppets to the farm on most days, to entertain the guests.  However, on Fridays and Saturdays things are too busy, so the puppets stay home.  This picture of Josiah as rope swing attendant was taken today, on a Saturday.  Jordan normally works on Saturdays, too, but today he got the day off and went back to the Renaissance Fair with Thalita.  And his gryphon puppet went with him.  Thalita thinks it's creepy, but when Jordan offered to leave the puppet home, Thalita told him to bring it.  Hopefully they'll bring back some pictures from today that I can post.