I heard a couple of families at preschool talking about
apple picking, and I realized that I have never picked apples. I looked at the weather forecast and told
Jeff I thought it would be a fun family event, and he agreed. What I probably should have looked at was how
far away the place was! It took us about
an hour and a half, which seems a little far for apples to me but I decided to
look at it as an adventure instead.
When we got to the place, it was packed. They were doing their yearly Edelweiss event. If just seeing the word Edelweiss doesn’t get
you singing the song from “Sound of Music” I don’t know what is wrong with
you!
Most people seemed to be just getting apples out of bins,
and I freaked out for a second thinking that maybe there wasn’t any u-picking
going on. While we roamed the orchard,
we saw a hayride go by so we jumped on.
The ride made a stop to see a few animals that live on the orchard. There was a giant steer and a 44-year old
horse. I had no idea horses lived that
long. India feed the steer a pear, and I hoped that none of my family would
have their eyes gouged out by its horn.
We finally figured out the u-pick situation, and headed out
to the orchard. We ended up with 11
pounds of various apples for $11. Pretty
good deal in my mind. Hadley doesn’t
have a huge vocabulary at this point, but she did learn to say “apple” while
walking the through the rows of apples.
We had a great time, and I will add this on to our things to
do again in fall list. What must do fall
things are on your list?
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