Halloween Fiasco

Where to begin? Ava's class had a party at a local farm this morning. We all knew there was a chance of rain. What we didn't know is that we would be STUCK on a HAYRIDE when it came down. It was pretty traumatic for everyone involved. We had only been at the farm about 15 minutes, and we decided to do the hayride first. It was a long trailer full of hay squares pulled behind a tractor. We all loaded in (near the back thank goodness) and the trailor started to make its large circle. Almost half-way into the ride, the rain started coming down in sheets! I had Nate in my lap, and Ava beside me. Both of them just crying their eyes out. Ava was in a plush hooded costume, so the water was not falling on her head, and I was able to cover Nate's head with my jean shirt I was wearing over a t-shirt. Boy was I glad to have that. The tractor had to make it back to the starting point, so we just sat there getting soaked. When it stopped we all piled off in a hurry and ran to a covered shelter. We were wet, chilled, miserable. Nate was shivering. We grabbed 2 pumpkins, which were included in our admission price, and loaded up the car. Did I mention it cost $10 for Ava and me to get in? We were out of there 30 minutes after we walked in...soaking wet and holding two pumpkins. Not fun, but memorable.