I love 4 seasons! Sure, we could have moved somewhere without such a long winter, but that makes the other seasons even more exciting. The thing I love about seasons are all the traditions. Pumpkin farms and apple orchards are not a dime a dozen in the southwest. These traditions are pretty limited to the air-conditioned aisles of Target where you fill up your cart with cinnamon laced potpourri decorations to only walk out to 90 degree desert. The idea of driving 20 mins and picking our own apples is so wonderful...and this is actually one of those that is great in reality and not just in my imagination.
We've experienced an Indian summer the last few weeks. It's funny....everyone here acts like it is so rare, but every year I've lived her we've had October days in the 70s. This year it is record setting though. My parents were here this past weekend so they got to experience a beautiful Minnesota fall day at Afton orchards with us.
I highly recommend Afton Apple farm. They actually let you pick the apples. The last two years we went the orchards weren't open to the public to pick so we just bought apples and cider. Afton farms has all the requirements: apple picking, raspberry picking, many pumpkin patches, hay ride, petting zoo, and an enormous play ground.
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| I can sort of see a resemblance here! |
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| The place was so big that there were acres of different types of apples. We ended up in the Sweet 16 portion. Delicious! |
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| Penelope figured out that carrying the apple bag is not fun for long. |
When we got home, Chris looked in the fridge at the big bag of apples he bought the day before at the grocery store. Yup, sweet 16s! We had apple cobbler that night and Chris's coworkers got a big bag of healthy treats to start their week.
4 comments:
Love that picture of Penelope dragging the huge bag of apples - hilarious! And, the one of you two - yeah, I can see a resemblance.
We're heading to a pumpkin patch this weekend, and I've always wanted to go apple picking, so maybe I'll look into that, too. I know there are places around here to do that. I'll just have to make sure they have Sweet 16 apples ;)
PapaJohn and the Grandmama had a great time with the "apples" of our eyes. The whole day was so beautiful and the apple crisp was delicious, as Penelope would say.
Looks like a GREAT time had by all - so glad you could enjoy the time together -- isn't it amazing how fast they grow!
So glad you had such a wonderful weekend.....mmmmmmmmm......fresh picked apples...I love the picture of Penny just after taking a bite of the apple.....and yes, there is definitely a resemblance!!!! I do miss fall in the midwest but don't miss the winters, so.........will have to come visit in the fall!
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