Honey Pot Hill...

Well, we finally made it to the local apple orchard this past Sunday! I say local, Honey Pot Hill Orchards is a decent drive, 45 minutes or so. Though it was quite crisp out (the cool weather has finally arrived in New England and I am not sure I am ready for it!), the sun was out and it was a nice day. The drive out there was very pretty, the leaves were not all turned, but the majority of them were and it made for a very scenic fall drive. The orchard is neat, it has animals for the kids to look at and feed, hayrides, a store that sells apples, gourds, cider and most importantly hot cider donuts and an area full of pumpkins to buy. It was a little strange, they are not letting anyone pick apples anymore so we had to settle for a 1/2 peck in the store. Apparently the weather was so good early on that they already maxed out on their apple picking??

Audrey really enjoyed the trip this year. We took her last year and while I thought she would enjoy the animals and things she really had no interest. We did get some good pictures though, that's the important part right? (We got some great pictures this year too, though life is a little different photographing a moving target.) She loved the hayride which kind of surprised me. It was a little cool and windy but that didn't seem to bother her. Her favorite part of the hayride (and Charlie's) was eating the hot donuts, and really who can blame her? She very intrigued with the goats and feeding them. I swear she was saying "goat" though who knows where she would have gotten that from. She also loved the "pumpkin patch". She ran in the pumpkin area and started going up to the pumpkins and touching them and trying to pick them up. We actually got her a pumpkin she can carry which is good, she has 2 small ones at home that look her size, but she can only lift them and then drops them on the floor because they are too heavy. All in all we had a lot of fun!