The kids had this past week off of school for conferences and MEA. We had a pretty low key week since I still had to go to class (college doesn't get MEA off--bummer!). The kids were with my parents on Tuesday and with my friend Sharon on Thursday while I attended my classes on those days. Being a stay-at-home mom, I don't have a regular daycare or babysitter but it all worked out with the help of family and friends:)
Anyway, on Friday the kids and I decided to go the Minnesota Harvest Apple Orchard. The weather was a little drizzly but we didn't mind. We took a tractor ride out to the apple orchard to pick our own apples. We decided to pick Regent apples which were marked by a white ribbon attached to the trees. We had fun running around looking for the white trees but when we would find them most of the apples were already picked or had fallen to the ground.
Needless to say, we put our tree climbing skills to the test! Emily and Nicholas would climb them to get to the apples that were still there--way up high on the tree! I even had to climb one since I am the tallest (not by much though--Emily is only 2 inches shorter than me!!). Matthew didn't climb any trees but he sampled the apples from the other trees while waiting for us to pick the kind we wanted:)
We had a blast in the orchard! Then we took the tractor back to the main building and pet some animals they had there like goats, sheep, etc. Then we got some yummy apple cinnamon donuts for the ride home. We had a memorable day (of course I took lots of pictures for my scrapbook--you know me!!).
2 comments:
Looks fun! I was hoping Dave and I would get to an orchard this fall, but we can barely make time to get to a grocery store much less an apple orchard :). Hopefully next fall! Dave won't be on his crazy "new teacher" schedule then. I love apple donuts, and only get them at the orchards. Yum!
It looks like fun. It's always great to get outside to do things before winter sets in.
I know then had fun running around the apple places we went with them. They didn't get to climb up in the trees though.
Good be outside.....mom
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