My kitchen smells like apples, and this time the scent isn’t coming from the hot apple pie candle on my stove.
Columbus Day is one of those strange holidays; the girls and I had no school, and yet Ed had to go to work. So we decided to have a girls’ day out. Where to go on a beautiful fall day? Why, the apple orchard, of course! I have one and a half pecks of apples in my kitchen as a result.
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| Emmy is too busy to stay still for a picture! |
Going to the apple orchard is not just about picking apples anymore. There are slides and rides and animals to feed. We also spent time wandering around in a gigantic corn maze, carved right into the corn field.
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| Wait, where are we?? |
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| Running around haystacks |
These haystacks remind me of the ones Claude Monet painted. I was about to look in my art books to see if I could find some photos of his haystacks, but then remembered I lost them all in my flooded basement this summer. *sigh*
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| Claude Monet, Meules, milieu du jour [Haystacks, midday] |
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| Apple cheeseburger for lunch…yum! |
After lunch, we finally headed for the main attraction: the apple orchard! We got onto a wagon for a ride, and walked along the aisles of apples trees, picking and eating apples to our hearts’ content. (Our guide told us we were required to eat apples!)
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| Apples! |
Before we left the orchard, there was one last thing the girls wanted to do: ride the cow train. Fortunately, Lily and Emmy are old enough to ride by themselves. I was not required to squeeze into a barrel cow, with my knees up to my chin, holding a child on my lap, as some unfortunate mamas and daddys.
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| Emmy riding Susie Q and Lily riding Jelly Bean. |
Hooray for apple picking!
