Oh did we have a great field trip today!  Princess of the Universe got together with the Best Cousin in the Universe and they had a great day together at Hill Ridge Farm.  Actually, we all had a very good time.  If you’re a North Carolina resident, Hill Ridge Farm is a great place to spend a day just letting the children play.

Upon seeing each other today, the cousins threw their arms around each and swung around and around, lifting each other off of the ground. 

One of the  main attractions at Hill Ridge Farm is the 80-foot slide!  It was most fun.  Of course my sister and I both slid down.  I don’t think my mom ever did slide!  She said she was thinking about it.

It was so much fun to get on a burlap sack and slide down, down, down — going fast, fast, fast!  The kids would come flying out, one after another, and jump up before they got run over by the next one out!  Sometimes they all came out in a clump!

I especially loved all the animals.  There were plenty of goats and chickens. 

And a turkey. 

We saw many ducks, and also turtles at the water’s edge. 

I think the children enjoyed just being out on such a beautiful day.  The sun was bright and warm, but it was pretty breezy so we never got overheated.  In fact, it was chilly a few times, but over all it was a great day to be out having fun.

Hill Ridge Farm offered a very relaxing hay ride.  I know the children enjoyed it, but they really wanted to get back to the big slide!

And you know that everyone just loves to eat when they are out at a place like this!  We had a great picnic lunch together. 

We panned for gems while we were there, the first time I’d ever done that, and it was so much fun.  I’ll show you our treasures later. 

Probably the most fun was riding on the Cool Bus.  I laughed at my mother until my stomach hurt.  She’s so funny, mostly because she doesn’t mean to be.

There is so much more to tell, but I am tired and a bit sunburned, something I do not like to let happen.  I think part of it is windburn, which may simply mean that with a cool breeze blowing, you don’t realize how sunburned you are actually getting. 

Lynn