Bumblebee Ranch time!!

This is one of Brendan’s favorite HopeKids events of the year. This year, we mixed it up by going up to the ranch the night before and camping on the property in our trailer. The weather was perfect, the ranch was so quiet and the people are super nice. Trevor even wants to sleep in the bunkbed of the trailer now.

It is a really good thing that our family likes spiders. The whole place was a real life Arachnophobia set. These harmless but large cuties were all over the ground.

They were funnel-web spiders. Everywhere you looked, there were patches of shimmery spider webs with their funnels. You had to watch where you stepped.

Brendan is knocking on the spider’s door, ever so lightly teasing the web with a stick.

Sure enough, that little disturbance would make the spiders peek out. Brendan was thrilled.

We took a nice long spider visiting walk around the grounds.

They also have some nice climbing trees

We brought the bikes so the boys could ride around all morning.

We rode to the pond so that the boys could do some fishing early before the crowds showed up for the event.

This is the part that Brendan was so excited about – riding the horses.

Brendan waited in line extra so he could get his favorite horse from last time. The horse is named Olaf.

Trevor rode Wilbur.

Brendan is on his second ride already.

Now Brendan is riding Brownie

It was pretty hot in the afternoon, but Brendan would ride and ride and ride as long as we would take him. Trevor was disappointed that the zipline was not there this year. He was so eager to do that again. Maybe next time!