As expected, there weren't nearly as many vendors and rescues as the big event in August, but we loved having all these Fall activities to do with the girls. We started off with pumpkin bowling, which consisted of using a pumpkin to try and knock over ten shampoo bottles. Naturally, we let the girls sniff the pumpkins for good luck before our turn. I'm ninety-nine percent sure if I had left the pumpkin in front of Rory for another second she would have attempted to take a giant bite. Since she does get canned pumpkin at home sometimes, I'm just going to assume she's very fiber conscious. Oh, and apparently, all the time we've spent Wii bowling has not paid off since neither one of us got a strike, but we did pick up two shampoo bottle consolation prizes.
Next, we headed over to the corn maze, which was my favorite part of the whole day! There was a smaller corn maze, which we completed without too much difficulty, which my 6'5” fiance reminded me wasn't much of a challenge since he was taller than the corn stalks and could see the entrance and exit. Perhaps feeling a little overconfident, we headed the larger maze. We decided it would be fun for the girls to let them choose which path to follow. Since Lane is typically a follower, it is not surprising Rory happily led the way at every turn. I only wish I had thought to take video since at certain forks in the path she would literally look from side-to-side trying to decide which way to go! A few times she was anxious to make her own “path” straight through the corn stalks to greet another person or pup, but we didn't permit any cheating. We were having a lot of fun answering the trivia questions along the path and posing with the different corn figures that it wasn't until after about twenty minutes we realized we were getting nowhere near the maze exit. So, at one point, when Rory decided to go one way, my fiance vetoed Rory and said we should go the other. Not ten seconds later did we walk into our first and only dead end in the maze. If only Rory could talk...I can only imagine what she would have had to say! Needless to say, we continued to let Rory make the decisions until about twenty more minutes later we found the exit. I have to say I think Rory might have been Toucan Samming it (I love making up words) and following her nose to the exit, where I discovered my newest addiction (and quite possibly Rory's too), Sweet Jersey Kettle Korn. More on that in a later blog.
We let the girls walk around in a bin of corn to sniff for Milkbones, but I think they all must of have been gone by the time we went through since neither of them seemed very interested in anything other than trying to grab pieces of the corn, which did make an appearance later in it's same form. You're welcome for the extra information.
We rounded out the day posing in the cutouts screaming photo op and with a hayride around the farm. I think the girls thought it was just a very slow car ride though.
Overall, we had a wonderful day, and I was thrilled to have a day of Fall activities that was dog-friendly, even if it was only for this event. I will say I never understood why more farms aren't dog friendly all the time, but after attending this event and seeing all the people who unfortunately didn't deem it necessary to pick up after their dogs, I'm sad to say I get it. To date, these L'Oreal events have raised over $500,000 for the Susan G. Komen Fund!
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Rory and Lane were staying nice and cozy in velour monkey joggers by MonkeyDaze.
Their matching bows were custom made to match by M'Lady's Dog Bows.
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