Grace's View of Last Sunday

When it was -20 on Sunday morning, we thought it was too cold to go. After church, it had warmed up (-13). We could go! We ate lunch at NiNi's,  then drove into more rural land. When we got there, I saw a poster that said there was a Pokémaze, where you went and found and photographed Pokémon. I was disappointed when we found out the maze was only open in summer.

 The hay ride wouldn't come until later, so Jasmin and I explored the area. We slid down slides, went through a maze, slid down two gigantinormous snow piles, and looked through a playhouse. We also climbed a huge pile of hay bales. Mom and dad climbed the haystack too. The farm was still decorated for Halloween and Christmas in places! We also went and looked at the barn. In front of the barn were PortaPotties, and behind the portaPotties was an extension of the barn, and over the door to the barn-extension was a sword, which said

 "___ Asylum for the Insane

please have your tokens ready"

I don't get that. Inside the barn, there were lots of pens, which had animals. The first pen held some pigs, which I think were rather youngish, since they were smaller than other pigs I've seen, but they were too big for the piglets I'd once seen. The next pen had sheep, two adults and two lambs. One of the lambs really liked standing on one of the adult sheep's back for some reason. The sheep didn't seem to mind. There was also a goat pen, with three or four goats in it. One of the goats was really friendly, and if you held out hay he would come and eat it. There was also a chicken in the goat pen! I got to feel the goat's horns. There was also a pen that had a door to the outside field.  In there was a donkey and a shy little pony. The donkey was really friendly and would let you stroke him all over and feed him. The pony was too shy and wouldn't let you get close enough to stroke. The donkey also seemed to act like a guardian for the pony, protecting it from us. After that we went back out to the fenced area the barn was connected to and found this yak/ox/cow thing. It had pretty big horns and was very shaggy. I managed to touch its horns, but it moved away before Jasmin could. Then we went back to exploring the area.

 Finally, the hay ride was ready. Me and Jasmin had to run to the ride. When we got in, we took a picture. But we all had to squuiissh to fit in the picture. Then someone hurried up to the bench-trailer-hay-ride-of-sorts-without-the-hay-:(-thing and climbed in. She almost missed the hay ride!
It was a pretty bumpy ride. We saw more outdated Christmas and Halloween decorations, and more sap lines. When we finally got there, we saw a maple taffy place and hurried over. We got to make maple taffy! A guy poured out some boiled maple syrup (I think), and told us to wait 10 seconds before rolling the taffy. I did, and then had to put it in the snow more so it would stay on my stick. I finished it pretty quickly, and then we went with a guy into another building and he showed us how they made the syrup. Then I washed my hands in snow because my taffy had been so sticky. My hands were cold after that for a little while. Then we rode back, played a little longer, said goodbye to the animals, (Jasmin managed to touch the pony! I saw a rabbit at the end of the hall with tons of wheelbarrows in a pen.) and went to small group. That was a little boring since there was no-one our age there. But we found a new season of How to Train Your Dragon: Race to the Edge! (season 3 or 4)

We went to a sugar bush farm!