Apples!!

We finally made it to "apple picking" country, Oak Glen, California.

Our family of four drove 2 hours for the privilege of picking apples off trees all by ourselves (along with thousands of other families and friends).

We found a few really sweet places...Greenspot Farm and then the Oak Glen "village." On the way home, we passed Willowbrook Farm & Riley's Orchards and wish we had stopped at Willowbrook first. Riley's or a portion of it was closed today.

Anyway, at Greenspot, we found lots of fun--apple picking, although the apples for picking were sparse and small (it's late in the season for apples), a hay ride, a corn maze, a hedge maze, a hay maze, pick your own pumpkins and cut your own Christmas trees, farm-made honey, the honey bee combs, horse rides, petting "zoo," a baby llama, peacocks and little baby chicks, plus beautiful vistas from nearly all points at the farm. We also got to eat pumpkin bread and dream bars straight from the oven--the pumpkin cake had butter melted all over the top of it. We ate it during the hay ride and shared it with some of the other passengers. It was a party hay ride!

We had a great time there for a few hours. The girls got horse rides, got to see the baby llama, Sarah and I got to pick the small, but pretty, apples we found, and got a lot (I do mean a LOT) of fresh air and exercise. The apple trees were uphill from the entrance to the farm. I hadn't had that strenuous of a hike for quite a long time. But I did it, and I was pretty fairly proud of myself that I survived the uphill hike, and then the downhill near-roll, too.

What a great day it was. Scott and I both agreed it was worth all the traffic and other people to have had such a beautiful and happy family day out. It was so much better than putting the house back together after last week's home improvement activities!