We woke early in the morning to go running and when we got home I was so stinken tired that I decided to take a quick cat nap instead of hopping in the shower like I should have. The plan was to meet Mark's parents at 9:15am but we didn't get there till 9:30. To make up for my tardiness, Mark's dad (Lynn) gunned it all the way there and would have made record time had he known that a sherriff was parked along side the road waiting for him. He got stopped going 70 in a 55mph zone. Mark apologized to one of his "buddies" and Lynn carefully drove away without the $175 ticket he should have recieved. That little fiasco ended up erasing the good time Lynn was making to get us to the ferry terminal and long story short we waited 25 minutes in the stand-by line only to fall 3 cars short of making it onboard. The next boat was at 3:30pm, which would have been too late. No soup for us. Luckily, we had a back-up plan: The pumpkin farm! We didn't get pumpkins this time (we'll get them on one of the 4 other pumpkin days we have scheduled this season ;) but we did enjoy the festivities!
Gracie had a great time riding the train, playing on the "mole Mountain", going on a hay ride, enjoying a piece of corn and petting the goats.
Grandma and Pop seemed to be enjoying themselves as well...
So the day didn't turn out as we had planned but that's okay... better luck next time.