I signed up for Red Tricycle's newsletter and they had a great email recently with a list of pumpkin patches in the area. When I read about Tanaka Farms, I decided this was the one for us! A corn maze, petting zoo, produce picking, wagon rides and, of course, pumpkins, sounded perfect. And the fact that it's in Irvine sweetened the deal. We have very good friends that live about two hours south of us who also recently had a baby...three weeks after us! Irvine is literally the midway point between our places. Life has been crazy for both of our families and this was the first time we were able to get our little ones together. Pumpkins and babies and good friends equaled an awesome Saturday.
Of course, being that this is Southern California, it wasn't exactly "fall-like" this weekend. In fact, it was in the 90s and the sun was brutal. It's fire season and the Santa Ana winds brought in the desert heat. All that fun stuff I listed? Like the corn maze? We started walking in that and decided, nope. It's too hot. So we turned around, exited the maze, and made a beeline to where they had some haystacks set up under a tent, near the concession stand. We all got giant shaved ice treats and ended up spending most of our time on the hay. Which actually worked out great since the main purpose of the trip was to catch up.
We got to visit, we didn't die of heat stroke and we made sure to pick up some pumpkins on our way out. Owen was fast asleep by the time we left...
Tanaka Farms was great. The parking lot was huge and packed when we got there so I thought, Oh great. There's going to be tons of people to get around. But since the farm itself is huge, it didn't feel crowded at all. Lots of families and a really fun way to spend the day. I'm thinking I might have to check out at least one more pumpkin patch before the season is over though...you know, for research. What? You can never have too many pumpkins.
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