Family Trip to the Apple Orchard

Emma’s a lucky girl. She got to go to an apple orchard twice this year: once with mommy and school and once with the family. I look forward to this trip every year, it’s the surest sign of fall. We’ve been going for years, and they do a bang-up job.

We always go to Afton Apple Orchard, and after sampling some different type of apples we hop on the hayride and pick apples. This was Abby’s first time to get in on the fun.

That’s right, she just sat down and started eating.

That’s when we ran into Titan. Ever since he started going to school with Emma, they’ve become the best of friends. After the apple picking, the kids got to play a little in the playground and watch them make apple cider.

The kids had a lot of fun jumping off the hay bales.

…and we got to feed the animals as well.

Emma’s First Field Trip: Aamodt’s Apple Orchard

I have to say that I am feeling lucky that I got to share Emma’s first field trip experience with her. It was fun mom & daughter time.

We had the perfect fall day to spend with the Salem Lutheran pre-school and kindergarten classes.

It was sunny and warm(ish). The outing started with a hayride out to the apple trees. Each of the kids got a bag and a lesson in how to pick an apple by one of the family owners. Emma carefully selected her perfect apple and placed it in her bag.

Next, we got a tour of the apple refrigerator – a giant walk-in cooler that smelled like yummy sweet apples! Next, we got a lesson in bees and how they help the apples grow. Of course there was an apple taste test and the kids got a snack of apple cider and apple donuts.
Here’s Emma and her buddy Tyler!

Finally, the kids got play! There was a hay bale pile to climb on, a hay bale maze, petting zoo and tractor-cycles.

Fun for mom and kiddo!