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We went to an "Egg Scramble" yesterday at Wolcott Mill Farm Learning Center, which I think is part of the MI state park system. Anyway, I had no real idea of what an egg scramble was, but I had a feeling it had something to do with gathering Easter eggs. Good assumption. However, not knowing what exactly to expect, I had us all in "Easter-casual" dress, if you will... no tshirts, sweatshirts and old jeans, much
to Archie's shagrin.
Upon arrival, however, I found I very well could have had us all dressed like that and no one would have been the wiser. All activities were held with little shelter from the windy, freezing temps. Oh well, we made the best of it since this was to be the only Easter-y activity we were going to be able to do with Rachel because of our travelling over the holiday weekend. Anyway, we arrived to pretty chilly temps, and instead of going into the main barn, we went into the sheep/goat barn. We found that they were doing photos of the kids with a baby goat, which I didn't think Rachel was going to go for at first since she was being a little 'shy' with the animals. Not quite freaked out, but not exactly comfortable. So, she really surprised us with her willingness to sit with a goat on her lap.
Then we went to the chicken coop and then went to get in line for the main barn where the Easter Bunny was doing pictures. Well, it turned out that Rachel was way more freaked out by the person in the big bunny suit than a live baby goat.
Not quite the Santa scene in "A Christmas Story", but not very warm and fuzzy. Now you see why I tend to not depend on these kinds of forced settings to do pictures of my child.
We went back out and took a horse-drawn wagon ride around the farm before the Egg Scramble started. We found that the Scramble was pretty much exactly what it sounds like. They scattered a whole bunch of plastic eggs in a clearing, then blew the whistle, and look out! The kids all ran out gathering as many eggs as they could. Luckly , it was staggered by age, so Rachel was only 'competing' with other 1-2 year olds. After the scramble, Rachel was quite the popsicle, so we decided to call it a day so we could all thaw out. It was a great time all in all.
You can check out our pics from the day here:
We went to an "Egg Scramble" yesterday at Wolcott Mill Farm Learning Center, which I think is part of the MI state park system. Anyway, I had no real idea of what an egg scramble was, but I had a feeling it had something to do with gathering Easter eggs. Good assumption. However, not knowing what exactly to expect, I had us all in "Easter-casual" dress, if you will... no tshirts, sweatshirts and old jeans, much
to Archie's shagrin.
Upon arrival, however, I found I very well could have had us all dressed like that and no one would have been the wiser. All activities were held with little shelter from the windy, freezing temps. Oh well, we made the best of it since this was to be the only Easter-y activity we were going to be able to do with Rachel because of our travelling over the holiday weekend. Anyway, we arrived to pretty chilly temps, and instead of going into the main barn, we went into the sheep/goat barn. We found that they were doing photos of the kids with a baby goat, which I didn't think Rachel was going to go for at first since she was being a little 'shy' with the animals. Not quite freaked out, but not exactly comfortable. So, she really surprised us with her willingness to sit with a goat on her lap.
Then we went to the chicken coop and then went to get in line for the main barn where the Easter Bunny was doing pictures. Well, it turned out that Rachel was way more freaked out by the person in the big bunny suit than a live baby goat.
Not quite the Santa scene in "A Christmas Story", but not very warm and fuzzy. Now you see why I tend to not depend on these kinds of forced settings to do pictures of my child.
We went back out and took a horse-drawn wagon ride around the farm before the Egg Scramble started. We found that the Scramble was pretty much exactly what it sounds like. They scattered a whole bunch of plastic eggs in a clearing, then blew the whistle, and look out! The kids all ran out gathering as many eggs as they could. Luckly , it was staggered by age, so Rachel was only 'competing' with other 1-2 year olds. After the scramble, Rachel was quite the popsicle, so we decided to call it a day so we could all thaw out. It was a great time all in all.
You can check out our pics from the day here:
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