Sunday, September 28, 2008

Apple Orchardy

We have never been an apple orchardy kind of family. Chris once said, "Why do people do that?" Yesterday we found out why.

Earlier in the week I decided since we were apple orchardy dummies we should enlist the help of some experts. I called on our friends the Siweks. They graciously agreed to show us the ropes.
We arrived to find Tyler and Hayley running through a hedge maze. Elijah quickly joined them. good thing he had on his orange hat or we could still be searching for him. We moved from the maze to the ever allergy friendly hay bales. Apparently, there is nothing more fun than jumping off the top of a hay bale into loose hay. Next it was onto a trailer for a hay ride. We were scoping out the apple choices. Who knew there were so many different types of apples. Rainbow has been holding out on me! After the ride and some taste testing, we were off to pick our favorites. I was a bit shocked when everyone began picking and eating but apparently that is what one does at the apple orchard. We picked and wandered and munched and had a great time.

ps..my new favorite apple is the Sweet 16....or the Liberty.

1 comment:

Sara said...

You've never been to the orchard before?!?!? How have I never known this tidbit?!?!? You're a teacher for Heaven's sake...what's more fitting than a teacher in an apple orchard? Glad you had fun! We'll have to do it here sometime. Now you'll have to go back for pumpkin time...we're going this weekend if you want to come! :-)