Life is a bowl of cherries

We had our first adventure into the world of U-Pick farms today. I took the kids to a nearby town that is well known for their cherry picking this time of year. The drive out to this town was an adventure all to it's own for my two kids. This area is well known for the windmills that produce energy year round. It was quite a site to see and Morgan really thoroughly enjoyed it. She kept saying that it was Windmill Town and how wonderful it was and how awesome it was that they were making electricity. She made up stories about people living in the windmills and "milling" the wind. For the shorter of the two, there were plenty of cows for Bennett to "moooo" at. Both kids were happy for the drive out.

We met Morgan's playgroup at Bacchini's Fruit Tree, got our buckets and we were on our way. We walked down a looooong aisle of olallieberries (blackberries) and as hard as it was, we were able to convince the kids to pick these on the way OUT so they don't get smashed by the larger fruit. We headed on down to the Plum and Pluot trees and picked some of those. Then, we went to our favorite spot, the white cherry trees. We spent lots of time finding just the right colored cherries. The farm cat took a liking to the kids (I'm positive it had nothing to do with them feeding him) and began to follow us through the orchards. After we had picked most of the trees clean of their ripe cherries, we headed back to the stand and to pick olallieberries on our way out.

We paid for our fruit and headed home to admire our bounty. By the time we got home, it was a sticky mess with blackberry juices running free. This didn't matter in the least to Morgan, who couldn't wait to try some of the cherries she picked. After I washed some and gave them to her, she told me that this was such a fun thing. She wanted to know if we could do it again next year. :) She was very excited when I told her that we didn't even have to wait until next year. I told her we'd have to take Daddy and she can show him the best cherries to pick. She said, rather casually, "Yeah, I can do that".