Sunday, October 22, 2006
ESCAPE FROM LITTLE CREEK RANCH!!!!
So, this week coming up is the first of two travel weeks. Things are going to be hectic and then they’re going to be in a different area code altogether. It’s sort of cool to take a full-on hours-in-an-airplane trip to another state or two, and never get out of your time zone, but of course I am sort of dorky about that sort of thing.
ANYWAY.s. The point is that on saturday we took cap’n dangermonkey way the hell down to past half moon bay to a pumpkin patch. It sounds like a long trip but really it was less than an hour each way in the car and it was a good day for a drive. But why go so far for something that we could have done so many places so much closer to home?
This is why:
Little Creek Ranch was the mellowest pumpkin patch experience imaginable. Daisy and Kaleb joined us with their parents Dave and Kim, and also Dave’s cousin and his wife M&M, the sweetest folks imaginable, and we all converged from distant points on this little piece of pumpkinirvana. We passed up an incredible festival with haybale mazes and giant gorillas,
for a place with a petting zoo, pony rides, kiddy gym, and - oh yeah - pumpkin launching.
The launching was awesome - those suckers go at least 200 yards and they’ve got a wooden target to aim for up the hill over the ravine. There were a lot of sheep there but I didn’t see even one get nailed all day.
In honor of the upcoming festival of creepiness, we had an experience fraught with horrors, to wit:
*and I can’t get this last one to show up as a thumbnail but I think it’s my favorite so don’t overlook it!
But once we left the haunted confines of those sinister precincts, we had a lovely drive home. Since I was passenging on this leg of the ride, I got to take some photos. Since we were headed north, most of them don’t have the ocean in them, but believe, me, it was out there and it was really looking good.
So that was it for the pumpkin farm experience. Then DDKK came over for burritos and beer and I went to bed on time and slept like a goddamn rock. You’re welcome.
