Davis Farmland, at last

The first full week of summer vacation, we were trying to soak up at much sun and time with friends as possible so after a day at our friend's neighborhood beach, we met up with our friends the Barrons at Davis Farmland.  This is a place full of farm animals for petting and feeding that also has acres of fun stuff for children to do: multiple playgrounds, bouncy house, splash park, go carts, pretend neighborhood full of shops and houses to play in, alpine slide, etc.  Many of our local friends were SHOCKED that despite this being our third summer in Acton, we had never been to Davis.  I had my reasons (mainly financial) but was finally swayed and so there we were!  It was a gorgeous day, not too hot, and the kids were just bursting to get in.

First things first, there was a paint-your-own-face station and while our kids were not interested -- their friends certainly were!

 Dagny did ask me to write a D and an F and draw a butterfly on her arms, though.  Finley also got some F's on his forearms.

 There were tons of farm animals to feed and a few special corrals, where you could go in and a staff member would put an animal on your lap once you sat down.  Dagny and Annie couldn't wait to get in, while their older brothers stayed on the other side of the fence .

 She loved holding this baby goat, even when it sniffed her ear and hair. Brave girl!

 We also met a 27 year old tortoise (a spring chicken in tortoise terms).

 Everyone took a turn pumping water for these very curious goats.

 Several playground were around and we settled on this one to start.

 Then, we did the bouncy house, some swings, and then onto the pretend neighborhood where Finley ran to the firetruck.

 Dagny and Annie were kind enough to ride in back.

 Then, there was some teamwork to deliver the mail all around the pretend town.

 

 A visit to the town's chicken coop.

While the bigger kids went down the huge slide on potato sacks, Dagny opted to keep her feet on the ground so she filed up her painter's pail at a pump and proceeded to paint the cow playground structure for a while.

 

Meanwhile, over at the slide....

Finley's in blue in the lane from the second from the right.

Last stop before lunch required bathing suits, so all seven of us piled into a generously large family bathroom to change.  We popped out and made our way to the splash park and I wasn't sure how Finley and Dagny would like it since neither are terribly brave in terms of water to the face situations.  However, before arriving inside the splash park, we came across a HUGE foaming bubble pit!!

 

 

Let's just say that Dagny LOVED it and I lost her a few times under the bubbles! Finley had fun there too and they both only came out occasionally to rinse of their bubbles in the least aggressive spray nozzle at the splash park.

We said goodbye to our friends who needed to head home and then found ourselves a shady spot at a picnic table for our packed lunch.  We ate quickly and then both kids wanted to go on the big slide together so off we went and I was so proud of Dagny, she dragged her potato sack up and happily slid down without any help from me.  We also watched as Finley drove a go cart around a track a couple times before making the trek back towards the parking lot. Phew.  All this and it was only 1:30pm!