The Great Pumpkin Harvest

This weekend we went to the Great Park Pumpkin Harvest at the Irvine Great Park. This park is in the process of being built and will be very cool when it is completed. For now they have free hot-air balloon rides for anyone who comes by or wants to wait a while to get on, along with some special events every now and then.

This weekend they hosted a free Harvest day, and it was so nice. We started by checking in to go up on the balloon because although we have tried a couple times before the wait was always too long for us. So we checked in for the balloon and then went to ride the carousel which Ryder absolutely LOVED! He was shouting "WEE" the whole time. We walked around the hay maze which Ryder did not love, went to the petting zoo which Ryder LOVED. Ryder also got to pick out his very own pumpkin at the pumpkin patch, and participate in some fun arts and crafts and carnival games. We bought some Kettle Corn and as we were heading out (because it was way past Ryder's nap time and he was exhausted), we went to return our pager for the balloon, and they said they were ready for us if we wanted to go up. We of course said "YES", and proceeded to head over and board the Great Orange Pumpkin Balloon. It was so cool! Even though it was a cloudy day, there is quite a view at 400ft. It was such a great way to end a wonderful fall, family outing.