Which is something we NEVER do as a family... most of the time it is one of us (me) with the older bunch and leaving the baby home. But this time, the party was for a classmate of Meredith and their family lives on a farm! So, my hubby was curious, since I'd been talking about this farm all summer, and wanted to attend.
Meredith's friend is Sarah. She and her family live on a 14 acre stretch of land off of Hiatus Rd and Orange Dr. It is a fully functioning farm and houses many horses - I think they told me that they have the room for 80.
Sarah and Meredith were friends over the summer and Meredith would live there is she could.
Not one inch of this property is ordinary.
First of all, the entire property is outlined by a 3/4 mile racing track for the horse training, with the family's home being a converted barn in the center of the track.
Every where you look, Sarah's dad has a mish-mosh of antique stuff. We were mostly gathered in an outdoor shed (that was really a no-walled outdoor room) that was as big as my house. They had room, in the shed, to house an antique car, air boat and several dirt bikes one end; a sitting area with functioning TV and an antique record player that he had playing Amos and Andy records; and an entire area for cooking and serving food.
The kids spent most of the day on a make-shift water slide - that was really a dug out hole, next to a huge mound of dirt, entirely covered with a billboard banner.
The kids would slide down the mound into a pool of water collected in the hole - rain water. The kids were loving it!!! If I was 7, I'd have been loving it too, but I'm not, and age forces the moms to just watch while sitting in the hot sun.
I should have taken a photo of the slide - next time. But the photos here are of the kids on a pony ride.
The pony was caving in (a little) when Olivia got on, but he adjusted. It was funny.
Overall, we had a great time - It was definitely different.
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