The Rock Ranch

Standing on the rocks at the Rock Ranch

Corn Maze

Corn House

Today, our family took a trip out to the Rock Ranch, a working cattle ranch owned by Truett Cathy filled with tons of "agritainment" for families. They are having their big family days during Saturdays during the fall. I had never been before, but had heard good things about it. It was pretty cold when we arrived and we had not dressed for the colder weather, but fortunately the weather began warming up some throughout the day. There were tons of fun activities for families to enjoy. Some of the things that were at the Rock Ranch were a train ride, corn maze, seeing/feeding animals, a carousel, pony rides, a giant jumping pillow, electic cars, paddle boats, cane pole fishing, slides, slingshots, jumping inflatables, a corn house (a playhouse filled up to kids' ankles with corn), and many other fun activities. The highlight of the day I'd have to say was the pumpkin cannon. The workers would honk the horns signalling the pumpkin cannon was about to start and everyone would gather around to watch them launch a pumpkin out of a pvc type pipe for about 200 yards over a lake and watch it explode upon hitting the land. Nothing's more fun on a cool fall day than watching a pumkin launched through the sky then exploding into a million pieces!! I brought my video camera and digital camera and they had both died by this point. I so wanted to video this and add it as little video clip here on the blog. Oh well, maybe next year. Anyway, I so enjoyed just being with Shane, Dalton, and Colby, and just enjoying each other while having tons of fun together.

Eat More Chicken

Colby had a little trouble steering and kept running into the hay bales, but still had fun. He thought it was funny that he couldn't drive. Hopefully this isn't a foreshadowing of things to come in the future.