Old Sturbridge Village

This Sunday we went out to Old Sturbridge Village. We've always loved this living museum, and love sharing it with the girls! This time of year is also so beautiful there! The colors are so vivid, and the gardens are full of their squash harvests. It is no surprise that we quickly decided we wanted to renew our membership!

Our visit this trip started in the lobby with Lily trying out the sleigh and dress up cloak:


Lily posing for a picture on the stone wall:


Lily loves trying out this game every time we visit! This is the first time she's actually gotten the concept of the game, and how to hold the sticks!


Of course we stopped to checkout the sheep! Violet and Ella were fascinated! And my smarty Violet was saying "Bah bah bah!" the whole time she was watching the sheep!






Lily and I checked out one house where you could try out a lot of the old objects! Lily made herself right at home on the bed:


And checked out the shaving set:


And then she played dress up, trying on all the outfits they had out to play with!





Of course Lily had to try her hand at pumping water:


We were very impressed with how good she did at waiting to take her turn! She was behaving far better than the other boys who were a few years older were!



I took Lily into one of our favorite houses, where there was a women talking about the food they would have been cooking this time of year:


There was a pie, warm coleslaw, and baked bean. The woman was telling us about her beans, being heirloom variety back then, were sweet enough themselves that they didn't need to sweeten the baked beans like we do now:


I was very impressed with Lily, who seemed fascinated by this woman, who she called a Princess! Lily stood quietly and took in everything the woman said!


Out in the garden behind the house from above, with all their squash harvest out in a row. Lily was walking on the planks like a balance beam, and jumping over the squash!


Pretending to eat the corn (which we saw being harvested as we were coming into the village)


Lily was all about running today! She took long runs whenever she had the opportunity! We told her she could go run down this path...which just happens to be my very favorite part of this whole village! I find this path so peaceful...and the perfect photo location! I love this picture, catching Lily in mid air while she's running!


Way ahead of us on the path, waiting for us to catch up:


Being my favorite place to take pictures, I had to do a mini shoot with the girls of course! Unfortunately there is just so much to look at, making it hard to get the girls to look at me!









Digging in the dirt:


Back up at the farm, Lily climbed into the hay, and was grabbing handfuls to bring to the bulls in a near by field. She kept falling in the hay, and just having a really fun time:


She found the sawmill fascinating too!


Watching the water that powers the mill:


Watching the printer:

She was such a good girl today, so we let her have a treat from the store...and of course she picked a lollipop!


She wanted so hard to move this wagon by herself, but it was to heavy for her, and kept tipping! She didn't give up though until I helped her successfully move the wagon!


Of course being such a beautiful setting, and with such beautiful fall colors, I had to play around taking some pictures of things! I took a ton of random photo's! Here are a few that I liked:


I'm so glad this October had 5 weekends, so we could fit a trip to OSV in while the girls were still babies! It's nice that we have a membership again too, so we can go back whenever we want this year! I think our trips there are going to be that much more enjoyable now too, now that Lily is enjoying listening to the history or the Village!