Fall Break: This is the Place Park

On Friday, I took Cambry and Vienna up to This is the Place Park for the "Little Spooks" activity. You could tell that this dad was flying solo. I get out of the car and all the other kids were in costumes. Cue Cambry asking: "Daddy where are our costumes?" I even forgot trick-or-treating bags. Sorry girls, your dad is a rookie. But having a rookie Dad didn't keep Cambry and Vienna from having a good time trick-or-treating.

This was the first and almost the only thing the girls wanted to do--ride the train.

They did sit and listen to the witch tell stories for a while until the Candy Cannon was announced to be blasting soon.

When the cannon went off, it made a loud boom, taffy rained down on us and kids were scrambling everywhere. Both girls were quite distraught. Should have seen that coming. Oh, I know, lets go get shot by flaming melted taffy. Doesn't that sound like fun, kids?

We went into the candy shop to recuperate and warm up. It turned out to be a perfect place for the girls to recover. It had two little kitchens and two little shopping carts. The girls quickly forgot about their trauma and got to work.

Trick-or-treating at the schoolhouse

This was my favorite part: seeing the girls ride horses for the first time. So, please forgive the picture/information overload. Vienna was so excited waiting in line and couldn't hold still. Cambry wanted nothing to do with it. So I told her to just wait by the fence while I help Vienna ride a horse. Vienna became much more somber when we approach the horse, but still let me put her on the horse. 

Meanwhile, one of staff saw Cambry by fence and planted her on a horse. Perfect, probably the only way Cambry would have gotten on a horse. Look, how nervous she is.

It took both of the girls a while to warm up to it.

By the end, they were both enjoying it.

I was so proud of how brave both of them were.

Next, we went to pet the goats and other animals. V doing her best goat face.

There was no fence between us a the animals. This made girls too nervous to approach any of the animals

V cautious circling the pictured goat above.

They had a fun little playground with a bunch of little houses. The girls took a liking to the firehouse and took it over.

After that the girls were exhausted. So, we trick-or-treated at one more house and caught a ride on the train to the front.