Apple Picking

I have always wanted to go apple picking. Each fall for the past five years I have thought, "We should go apple picking." The weekends would fly by and before I knew it, the season was over and we missed our chance.  I didn't realize how early in the fall season harvesting apples took place.  Well, this year we remembered early enough in the season to make it happen!

This past weekend we drove up to Flat Rock, NC to Sky Top Orchards and we had a great time.  It only took about an hour to get there and man was it packed!  I only snapped a few pictures because little man was eating the majority of the time.  What can you do. 

Kenny had a great time climbing trees to get some apples.  Most of the lower branches had all ready been picked through by the youngsters.  We did find a row of trees that had some apples low enough to reach, so Tripp and myself were able to actually pick one!

It was such a beautiful day, and I am so thankful that we live close enough for awesome day trips to the mountains.  It really was a great day with friends.  We loaded up on apples (obviously), pumpkins, apple cider, and Asian pears (these are amazing!)

Unfortunately we missed out on the apple doughnuts. :(  When we arrived, we thought the line was a little too long.  Our thoughts were that the line would die down as the day went on.  We were wrong.  The line was twice as long when we came back from picking apples.  Lesson learned.

In a jacket for the first time.

So glad we started this family tradition!