Showing posts with label Day Trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Day Trip. Show all posts

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Corn Maze

I believe this is the last of the unpublished October pictures... our corn maze adventure.

This particular day was ridiculously sunny.  I decided to finally try a polarized filter...  I had read that these filters could be tricky, as you need to alter your camera settings to compensate for the "sunglasses" covering your lens.  Once I got the hang of it, it wasn't too bad.


You know how the sky always looks pale blue or white in photos, when in reality, it's a beautifully rich blue?  Look at the difference between the contrails and the sky above.  The polarized filter is the only thing making the sky so blue (no editing involved).  I think I'll definitely be using this filter a lot next summer.


Lucas insisted on leading the way... we got lost... for a long time.  Jack somehow stayed asleep in my Mei Tai wrap the entire time!
Lucas got his first experience peeing outdoors... I mean, we were really lost... who knew how long it would take us to find our way back to the barn?
We finally found a lookout tower that gave us a cheater's vantage point.  Okay, not really.  We were still lost.


We made it out!  ...after an hour and a half of walking in circles, we treated ourselves to the biggest roundest pumpkin we could find :)



Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Cows... Mooo!

So this is one of those little adventures from October that I haven't posted. There is a large dairy farm nearby... okay a few hours away "nearby".  We took Lucas there last year, and he had a blast.  We took the boys (and my dad) back to Fair Oaks Farms.  It's a huge dairy farm with a museum (with a 4D theater), a bus tour of the barns and milking area, a cheese factory (with ice cream and cheese made there), an outdoor activity area, and a birthing barn (where you can see at least one cow in labor at any given time).

On the way into the museum...

The 4D theater... Lucas screamed bloody murder last year.  We didn't attempt it this time.

This was so awesome!  We got to see a first-time mom give birth to her calf.  Look at the poor calf's terrified eyes!

Not sure how much he understood about the whole delivery process.   Silly child is refusing to look at me because the camera is out...


The cow-rousel (hehe, I made that up all by myself :)

...greedy baby...

Finally! A picture of me!



How fast can you clean and hook up the the pumping machine thingy?


Me and my daddy!



Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...