We took our cart to the center of the Relleke Pumpkin Patch and looked around at the wide variety of pumpkins available. All different types, plump, ribbed, bumpy or warty then colors of robust orange, pale yellow to dark rouge. Our three-year-old son bounded out of the cart and began to jump over the pumpkin vines and touching and inspecting ones that were nearby. Last year we found a small one for our son, a rounded one for my husband and tall one for me. This year we went for different shapes and color and orange smooshed face one, a spotted red one and a bumpy small one.
After the search for the imperfect pumpkins, we headed to the carnival area. First off was Spider Town, an obstacle course sort of place for the little ones, but older kids might be bored. We learned that if our son was two, he would have been able to do it for free, the advantages of being younger. Here he climbed through a long black pipe something regularly scene for drainage, but here used to let a kid crawl through a tunnel. He climbed into a spider’s web, which was ropes and netting tied together. He was not interested in the hammock looking swings, but found time to swoosh down a slide propped up on hay bails.
The last stop was the Krazy-Korn Palace, which is kind of like a sand box but with corn. He spent some time here bulldozing the corn and loading it up into tricks. Again if you have small kids, this is a place to send them for a while if one of you want to check out the nearby vendors.
This year he is 39 inches so he is big enough to take on the rides. He and dad rode in the pumpkins, which went around and around. I took him on the roller coaster, he was not a fan, it went to fast, maybe next year.
Other rides can be found along with a Jungle Maze, Corn Maze, a Petting Z
oo, which this year he just wanted rides, Pony Rides, Barrel Train- which he thought he was to old for, a Giant Slide, the Haunted Barn, I thought he was to young for and Bouncy houses.
The sounds of a pumpkin gun going off, is only the Pumpkin Chucker in which you shoot pumpkins at a target, which might be your thing.
Free admission and free parking and tickets for rides are 50 cents. Open Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in October.
Relleke Pumpkin Patch is located at 473 Sand Prairie Road, Pontoon Beach, IL 62040. For more information go to: http://www.rellekepumpkinpatch.com/about-us.html
Rolling along on the roller coaster for the first time!
