After living here for 5 years, we finally heeded the advice of friends and went apple picking! We went about an hour through the mountains to North Carolina to Sky Top orchard. I was attempting to avoid the weekend crowds and thought it would be a great idea to go a Monday after Emery got home from school (totally counts as FHE!) However, due to road construction Emery got home about 30 minutes later than usual. Then we had library books due that day that needed to be dropped off. And then we realized we'd get there right at dinner time and so we needed to pick up something on the way. So basically we were racing the clock to get there and get it all done before they closed at 6pm. As soon as we got there we hurried to find the Gala apples which are our favorite. The closest row was pretty picked over, but not wanting to waste time to trek to a further row we attempted to climb a few trees. We filled one basket and called it good. Unfortunately by the time we went back to the main area, the tracker rides were closed and everything else was closing up as well. We lucked out getting the last 7 apple doughnuts (which were really yummy) but there was not apple cider to go with them :( We found some picnic tables to eat our dinner and then the kids played on the playground for a few minutes. Then they politely asked us to leave because they were closing. We didn't get to see the petting animals either. So lesson learned and we will be going first thing in the morning when they open on a Saturday next year! Then we will have time to casually pick apples and not but stressing out about hurrying! And we'll get to do all the other fun things we didn't get to do this time. Overall it was pretty fun and we are still enjoying our bag of apples!
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