I’ve written about apple picking numerous times, and so this Spin Cycle prompt about apples was going to be different. I was going to post an apple craft, or maybe make my favorite apple pie recipe.
On Monday, Lily and Emmy didn’t have school. For the past few years, when the girls have had a day off in the fall, I’ve taken them apple picking. This year, even though it wasn’t discussed, the girls assumed we were going to an apple orchard. I assumed I was going to get some laundry done. So what did I decide to do?
Apple picking, of course! Apple picking makes me think of fall weather, of cooler days and sweaters, but for the past few years we have had sunny, warm fall days when we went apple picking. On Monday it reached 80 degrees, so we definitely didn’t need a sweater!
I decided to try a different apple orchard this year, and so we found ourselves up by the Illinois/Wisconsin border at Royal Oak Farm. Instead of a corn maze, they have an apple tree maze, which was easier to navigate than the corn mazes we’ve been lost in. The trees grow on trellises and so the maze is permanent. There were three activity centers at different parts of the maze. The girls loved the musical center so much we visited it twice. There were big, colorful pipes to bang on, and a large wooden xylophone, too.
Emmy brought her own quarters to feed the animals at the petting zoo; we spent a while feeding the chickens cracked corn and giving the goats their pellet food. As for apple picking, we did that part last, so we wouldn’t have to lug our heavy apple bags around with us! We picked Gala and Jonamac, and I think I can easily say that the actual apple picking is always the favorite part of our trips to an orchard.
It’s been a very busy week since Monday, but hopefully I will bake an apple pie this weekend! Would you like a piece?
The girls had off both Monday and Tuesday here and we are actually going hopefully tomorrow, apple picking. The girls can’t wait and neither can I now. Glad you all got to go, too 🙂
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I hope you made it to the orchard! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
I would love a piece! I think an apple tree maze is something I have to see. We do like corn mazes (I think?) but we did a sunflower maze late last summer that was totally new and exciting.
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When I was writing this post, I forgot that I had a CPR refresher course this weekend! I really want to make that apple pie! Hopefully I’ll get to bake soon.
Sounds like it was a nice day. I haven’t actually picked apples but we do go and buy them each year at the apple orchards. Thanks for the reminder!
There were a lot of bagged apples for sale at the orchard, so once the girls are older I’m sure I’ll just buy some instead. I love fresh apples!
I have never made it to an apple orchard. Pumpkin and corn farms, but never an apple orchard. Looks like you all had fun.
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