Aricin at Patterson Farms

Today I accompanied Aricin on his field trip with his preschool class to Patterson Farms. Christian went here with his class about a week or so ago as well. They start the tour out in an old barn where you sing songs along with some farm puppet characters. Then they followed that with a cute puppet story. Then they give each person a cupful of animal feed and then you go out into the barn where they have the animals. They had a couple goats on a leash you could feed. Otherwise you feed the animals (pigs, goats, sheep, peacock) by dumping the feed down a PVC pipe feeder they have made. Next we went on a tractor ride around the property. They show you some of the crops and you get to see the pond. When you finish with the tractor ride you get to pick out a small pumpkin. Aricin really liked that! Then they headed to the playground/picnic area to have lunch and play. We decided to go and see Niels for lunch since Patterson Farms is so close to his work. We ended up going to Aricin's favorite Mexican restaurant that we used to go to all the time when we would visit Niels on his lunch break back when we lived in Mooresville. I haven't been to that restaurant since we moved to the house in April. A fun day! Aricin is very tired and so am I! Pictures from the top: Aricin near the hay bales, Aricin in the pumpkin "patch" after the tractor ride and Aricin on the tractor driven hayride.