Apple Picking

Today we took a trip to the apple orchard where you can pick your own apples...your own absolutely delicious apples. Addison posed for me...
Here he is as a 'sour apple'...
These apples, can't remember their names, (something like matzu???) are absolutely delicious.
Seeing as Addison posed, Benjamin wanted to get in the apple too.



Addison, Lindsey, and Ron were picking and trying out a few apples... the owners had told us to try any we wanted.
Addison ate 7 apples! We each got an apple picking bag.
Donnie and Lindsey tried all different varieties...

After we had picked apples to take home and eat or cook with, we got a 5 gallon bucket to fill up.
For $8, you filled the bucket with apples that had fallen from the tree. Then the owners of the apple orchard will make it into apple juice for you at no extra charge...





Once we had our 5 gallon bucket filled, we washed the apples. The apples were dumped into this bucket. Lindsey and Addison are pulling them out, cutting out any bruises, and then putting them into the smaller buckets.
Dick, one of the owners, then poured the cleaned apples into this contraption...
We sampled the fresh juice as it came out...oh my gosh, is it ever delicious! We had several different varieties of apples mixed together for the juice.
Benjamin was enjoying learning all about apples...
He watched Dick press them...
Betty was filling our gallon...
We were all watching the operation...
It was a perfect time for a little family photo...

The apple orchard was absolutely beautiful!

Tomorrow: baking an apple pie!