When we first got there we found out it was "cowboy" day at the ranch. All of the workers were dressed like cowboys and some were riding around on horses, holding up wagon rides and train rides! It was pretty funny! As I was getting us all paid up, Jeff and Rhyan went to check out the pumpkin patch.
We met up with the family (we all drove separate) and went first to the big bouncy "pillow". Rhyan loved it! And it wore me out!!!
Then, on to the big tunnel slide. Again, lots of fun!
About that time, Rhyan thought it was time to check out "Tiny Town". It is Truett Cathy's "baby" according to the workers and it is reported that he spent over $100,000 on it. When you get to the street, you can see why. Each building has its own air conditioning and electricity, but it's all "tiny". Child size. This was TONS of fun for the kids. We spent about an hour in there!
Some of the old fogies... i mean... family.... enjoying the rocking chairs
Rhyan loved the firehouse and stuffed dalmation (it was bigger than she is!)
It became clear pretty quickly that a rocking chair might be on Santa's list this year :-)
Rhyan and Queen Lydia resting a bit in the "play house" (where the theater was)
Unfortunately the Ford family was misbehaving and found ourselves in the pokey. Sad.
After getting out of jail, we figured it might be best to head to the church to repent and hear a good sermon by pastor Luke. This cracks me up :-)
The view of Tiny Town from the entrance. There was SO much thought put into it! AMAZING!
On to the pets. Here, we saw a hog. Looks about ready for eating, to me!
Tracy's family and Jeff and I are huge Survivor buffs so she and I were cracking up to watch the kids (and Jeff) work hard to make it through this maze... it reminded us so much of our favorite show!
Then, onto the corn cannons. Here, Bobby, Marsha and Jeff are dueling it out!
And the winner is... JEFF! lol
Rhyan was a little bored w/ the corn cannon thing so Lindy took her to visit the goats. That girl loves animals... ALL animals!
Sweet pic of Marsha and Rhyan!
Then we headed to Mr Cathy's "barn" where he keeps all of his collectible cars. Can i first off say that this "barn" was nicer than most homes?! haha. I took a couple of pics of some of the cool cars. There were TONS in there and a movie theater upstairs showing none other than cowboys movies.
Rhyan and her chauffeur for the day!
The cousins
Ethan and Rhyan
The grounds are so beautiful, and so vast!
Lindy and I are the picture taking queens (and everyone else enjoys all the pics we take as we pose them, repose them, take one, two, three shots, then repose them... sure... everyone LOVES it! NOT!) Anyhoo, we loved this spot for some pics.
But apparently kids dont know how to pose properly. And for some reason, Ethan was having a mental block on how to hold a baby. Meanwhile, Rhyan's like "WHAT?!"
On to the pumpkin cannon. We were so excited for this all day and made sure we watched the schedule and didnt miss it. Well, they shot off 3 pumpkins, all at different distances. Cool? I guess. Jeff said he thought it was a let down. Idk really what we expected?
Had to check out the process for making "pig skins". bbq are my favorite!
WEIRD, huh? They start off that little flat piece of pig skin and almost immediately fluff up in the grease. Kinda yuck. But something tells me I'll keep eating them.
The Cain Clan who invited us on this little trip. THANKS!!!!
Overall, we had a BLAST. Rhyan completely missed her nap but was great! She slept all of 45 min on the way home but still did fine that evening. If you've never been, you should definitley go. We plan to! OH, btw, we also went on a hay ride, rode weird bike's and they also have a corn maze and cow train that we didnt do. If you havent gotten the idea yet, there is TONS to do there... for $12 a person! What a deal :-)
