On a playdate this week, my friend Laurie mentioned that the Lincoln Park Zoo was holding it’s annual Fall Fest. Today we decided to go check it out.

The Zoo is free to enter, and since it’s close enough for us to walk to, it’s always considered a great, low cost form of entertainment.

But that changes if you decide to buy tickets for all the exciting things there are to do for Fall Fest.

We didn’t see them all, since every time you decide to enter with 6 people to any of these attractions it’s $30, but we did use the tickets wisely. A $30 ferris wheel ride? Probably a waste of money.

But for the corn maze it was a bargain.

Next to the maze were barrels of hay. A couple of barrels of hay? Hours of entertainment!

The twins spent a lot of time in Tot town too.

But the obstacle course was over in about 2 seconds, and the kids immediately asked to do it again.

We missed the pumpkin patch, but it seemed to be a good area for very young kids.

The carousel, which is there year round, was part of the ticket sales, as well as the train which we missed.

We left with three tickets, so looks like we will be back again soon…