Apple Hill

Kelly and I took Thomas, Noelle and Karly on our annual trip to Apple Hill this past weekend.  Hope got to stay home and play with Grandma. We have our usual stops that we make but this year we kind of switched up the activities that we did.

 

Thomas, Noelle and Karly all went on this jumping apparatus. We were a little nervous about Karly going on it but she had a blast and kept saying “higher, higher, higher”. I guess that means she was having a good time. 

Then we had a nice picnic at our usual spot. The kids ate their lunch and played in the leaves while I took a lot of pictures. Then Kelly and the kids took a ride on the train.

 

 

 

Then we headed over and walked through the museum and looked at some old cars. We used to be able to go and climb on the old trucks but that area is no longer open so the one car outside the museum had to work for this year. I think next year we will skip this stop and find a new one to go to. The kids weren’t that impressed this year.

At our last stop the kids were able to feed the animals at the petting zoo and we took a short little hike on the nature trail. This stop included our treat for the day.

Another Year… Another Trip to Apple Hill

Kelly and I love our annual trip to Apple Hill with the kids.  We have gone without fail for the past 10 years and always look forward it.  This year Kelly did some research before we left and we hit a few new orchards and we skipped a few of the ones that we always go to that are always packed.  As usual we had a fantastic time and the kids were great. 

The kids always enjoy a horse ride.

Karly and I took some pictures while the kids went on the horse ride.

Awh…. Thomas is Karly’s very favorite person.

Sweeet….

We enjoyed our annual picnic.

The kids got their faces painted for the very first time!

And then we got a fabulous treat…….

Sierra Apple Festival

Every year we take a family trip to Apple Hill in October. We pick out our pumpkins and take family pictures in the fall foliage. We all look forward to it. This year we had to switch things up a little because of Thomas’ soccer schedule. This year we needed to go in September. Unfortunately on the weekend we were going to go it was extremely hot.  We didn’t think Apple Hill would be as much fun in the heat and it just didn’t seem like tradition to go when it was so hot. Part of the fun is dressing warm and having hot cider. 

So Kelly and I looked on the internet to find something fun to do that weekend. There just so happened to be an Apple Festival going on in Sonora. So we loaded up the kids and headed to Sonora. 

 

It was Karly’s first festival.

The kids couldn’t wait to get a caramel apple when we got there! So we drive up to the fair grounds and there were about 30 cars in the parking lot.  We go into a hall that had about 10 vendors selling all kinds of handmade things and some tables where some elderly people were eating lunch. We head outside and there are about 20 people out there wandering around and participating in some apple themed carnival games.  It definitely wasn’t what we thought it would be. 

Thomas enjoyed playing the carnival games   

and jumping in the bounce house.

Noelle wasn’t impressed by either one of those things but she did enjoy making a bird feeder out of an apple, peanut butter and bird seed.

It took us about 35 minutes to go through the entire Apple Festival.  Just in case any of you would like to go next year I have attached the link 8-)! But the kids were very very disappointed that there weren’t any caramel apples.

Since that wasn’t all that impressive  we decided to have lunch in downtown Sonora and then head to one of our favorite places, Covers Apple Ranch.  Kelly and I have been going here for many many years and it reminds of going to our Great Grandmother’s house.

The kids had a blast going through the petting zoo, the barn and riding the train.

  

And of course at the end of the day we got an apple treat!