Apple Picking

Today we took a drive to Hood River and the "Fruit Loop". This is an area that has all kinds of fruit farms and they have published a map with all the farms and their hours etc. It is quite fun and there are other interesting things such as Llama and Alpaca Farms as well. We had a destination in mind when we went today so drove to the far end of the loop and Kiyokawa Family Orchard and Fruit Stand. They sell produce and fruit at our local farmers market so we were interested to see their operation. Although we could have picked our apples out of the many large bins around the store area we opted for the tree picking experience instead. Because of our cold, wet spring the apples are late this year so there were only a few varieties that were ready for u-pick. They grow over 40 varieties of apples on their 107 acres! The kids had fun picking the apples and then went on a hay ride in the wagon. While they were out on the hay ride they got to pick an apple and eat it on the ride.
After the apple orchard we were going to go check out the Alpaca Farm but the kids fell asleep before we got to far down the road.
We drove home over the mountain and stopped for dinner on our way home. All in all it was a fun day.

Anna and I sat in the car while daddy and AJ finished their dinner. Driving always cheers her up :-)