Apple Picking

My friend Jamie came to visit from Des Moines, Iowa last week and my other friend Val came down from Washington DC to hang out with us for the weekend. On Saturday, we went apple picking to the Carter Mountain Orchard which is near Charlottesville, Virginia. I warned them that it may be slightly busy and it sure was! We drove up the mountain behind many others who were there to pick some apples and get some yummy cider donuts. Many of the apples were already picked over by this late time in the season, but we did manage to get some good looking Granny Smiths and some Fujis, both great for baking and eating. I picked out a pumpkin to carve too (and made Jamie carry it-that's what boys are for, right?) and then we got in a very long line to pay for our loot. Val was guessing the weights of all of our bags of apples, mine coming in the most with a guess of 13 lbs (it ended up being ~10). And Jamie got 3lbs of apples for $1 since the guy wouldnt take his debit card to pay for $2.91 worth of apples. Steal of the day.

And of course, I reallllly wanted to wait in line to get some apple cider donuts, this is one of the reasons I like going apple picking every year. But the line was toooo long and we would have been there another half hour or more waiting for them. So, as sad as it was, I didn't buy any apple cider donuts this year. Guess I'll have to wait another year for them....