Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Trip to the orchard

We went to County Line Orchard on Sunday. It was my first time there. The boys went when E was in preschool and E remembered it some.

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We got some hot apple cider that was soooo good! Then we headed out to the orchards on the tractors DSC01254 DSC01253

Ethan’s favorite kind of apple is Fuji so we were headed for that field, also T wanted Suncrisp that was in the neighboring field.

We were told that a lot of the trees were really picked over. We walked down 2 aisles of Fuji and there were NONE.

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He picked some Golden Delicious ones first.   DSC01258 DSC01259 DSC01260 DSC01261

We found a big bin at the end of an aisle and Ethan said he found a Fuji in there, at least he said it tasted like one. I doubt it really was, but it made him happy.

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T found some Suncrisp apples DSC01275

and T even asked if it was “all you can eat when out in the fields” That poor kid gave him the oddest look.  DSC01277 DSC01278 DSC01279 DSC01286 DSC01287 DSC01291

ooh Ethan thinks that one is a little sourDSC01292

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we walked back to the main barn to pay/weigh our apples and to get some donuts!!  I believe the total weight of apples was 9lbs.DSC01298 DSC01299

apple cinnamon donuts DSC01302

pumpkin donuts DSC01303

the pumpkin donuts were my fav! We just got 3 of apple and 3 of pumpkin. They were $1 each! or 6 were $4 and 12 were $7.

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Ethan thought this big apple was neat and he had to get that cute little pumpkin that he named Minnow.  DSC01304

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we were trying to find the MooChoo Train ride that we bought a ticket for Ethan. This lady led us the back way through the Kids Farm. She didn’t realize that we didn’t buy that wristband to get in there, though! We got to see all this stuff, which was neat. DSC01319 DSC01322 DSC01323 DSC01326  DSC01330 DSC01335 DSC01339 DSC01340  DSC01342 DSC01344 DSC01345 DSC01348

this band was playing where we were standing in line for the train and there were bunch of picnic tables for there for the grill.  DSC01352

i liked this guy’s sparkly purple guitar – so cool! DSC01351

It was a really neat place, it was crowded and it was a cool day. We were surprised by the amount of cars from IL.

We ended up buying a dozen pumpkin donuts

9 lbs of apples

a big caramel apple

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a little pumpkin and a big pumpkin

and I had 2 hot apple ciders- so good!

We were so full that we skipped lunch. We ended up going to Northwoods around 3:30 and then a trip to Target.

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