We spent our day today visiting farmers and their animals and wares in the most unusual of situations. Today was the annual Farm Days celebration inside the local shopping mall.

Our friends the Piseco Peeps were supposed to pick us up and explore the festival with us, but they were having bouts of feeling generally unwell, so we made it out on our own….

OR SO WE THOUGHT.

We started in the mall proper, and the kids took a quick ride on petal tractors near the doors.

After a moment, we made some crafty cotton ball sheep. It was just after taking that picture with our fuzzy sheep that Nate began freaking out and bouncing around and screaming, “JediBoy, JediBoy and PisecoMom”* at the top of his lungs. I thought he had seen them somewhere in the mall because they’d decided to join us belatedly, but then realized that he wasn’t quite seeing what I’d expected. Instead, we’d found the following on the board the kids were posing in front of for their photo op.After our excitement wore off, we continued through the mall and enjoyed such varied activities as tasting Stone Soup and watching a sheep get her winter coat sheared.

It was a grand day, and we came home with loot bags full of crafts, snacks, and assorted treasures.

For more pictures, you can check out the album…