September was an unseasonably cool month with a few days' high temps only reaching into the 50's. I had given up on Summer and taken almost all of the boys' shorts out of their closets. Then October rolled around and in the first week of the new month, we had temps in the high 80's and even low 90's! On Saturday, Oct. 5th, we took the boys to their favorite Fall event, "Pumpkinville," at the Leesburg Animal Park. They wanted to wear their Halloween shirts so I rolled their sleeves up. We got really hot and sweaty out there, and I forgot to bring sunscreen, but the boys had a great time.
A four-horned beast!
This little dog did tricks with frisbees.
Showing off their tongues after eating a red, white and blue Spider Man popsicle.
The Kings of Pumpkinville!
A very rough and bumpy (but non-crowded) hayride.
I didn't realize until later that I had accidentally switched out of the Auto-Mode on my camera but the black & white shots of the dinosaur statues along our hay ride turned out kind of cool.
Inside the Pumpkin Bouncy!
Hot, Sweaty Mooses On A Tractor!
Bouncy Slide!
The boys seemed to love this slide more than anything else at the park and they asked to go back to it again towards the end of our day. Unfortunately, Dylan (who had refused our invitations to go potty all day), had a major pants-wetting accident at the top of the slide and started crying and refused to come down. Tom had to go up and get him and slide down with him. It was pretty funny watching Tom come down with his arms outstretched, holding Dylan off to the side to try to avoid getting his own clothes wet. I hurried him off to the car to change his clothes and we all went home after that. So Dylan left his mark on Pumpkinville and shut the whole slide down for who-knows-how-long while the park attendants cleaned up the mess (poor guys!) That little incident aside, it was a great day at Pumpkinville!
