Pumpkin Demo Day at the Rock Ranch

  We enjoyed a gorgeous day at the Rock Ranch yesterday.  I would say gorgeous Fall day but it was 80 degrees outside! 

 They loved climbing all over these pumpkins.  It was pretty funny when Avery's foot went through a rotten pumpkin. 

 They picked out the pumpkins they wanted to drop from the crane.  I was actually surprised Alia was willing to go on the crane.   


There it goes! 

 We all enjoyed watching the Monster Truck crush the pumpkins and the cars. 

Cow Train

 Time to smash the pumpkins.

I love their faces here!

We had a longer drive and really wanted to take the Nissan Leaf .  It was far too long to make it there and back on a charge so we would have to stop somewhere.  We had to drive about 110 miles which is about 20 miles further than a charge can take us.  Our plan was to stop on the way back home at a Nissan dealer and eat dinner next door at the grocery store across the street.  Two little problems.  The Nissan dealer was closed and the grocery store was a vacant lot.  Lucky for us one of the salesmen had just shut the gate and told us to drive up on the curb to get to the charger.  They had free wifi so the kids watched movies on their nook while we added the 20 miles needed to get home.  After about an hour and a half we were on our way.  Taking the car was not as convenient as we would have liked but it did work.  Next time we will have to do a bit more planning to make sure we know what is actually open.