Apple Jubilation

On Saturday we went apple picking in Ellijay, Ga. It was a part of the Apple Jubilee! There is a farm where you go in, and they have all of these avtivities and then they have all of these rows and rows of apple trees, at the beginning of each row, they have a sign telling you what kind of apple is growing in the row. They have about 13 different kinds of apples. As you can see the rows were really long, this picture is from about halfway down looking back at the main store. That little white speck is the store where you can also buy apples, so that you don't have to pick them. You can also buy apple jam, jelly, pie, butter whatever else can be made from apples. The other activities that they had were fun but they would have been really fun for someone who was about 3 years old. They had these "John Deere" tricycles that the little kids raced around the track. They had a petting farm, which we could have gone in but we probably would have looked stupid being that only kids were inside the farm. They had wagon rides through the farm, which we tried out. They take you through the orchard, but only a tiny part, and they have all of these weird displays like fairytale paintings to make it seem like it is a fairytale forest...I think that one is for the kids too. The little black things in this picture are pigs. They had pigs races, which we enjoyed, but they were nothing compared to the pig races at the Stampede.

We decided to pick only Granny Smith apples because I am going to make some desserts and those are the best ones for pie and stuff. All of the trees were some kind of drawf tree so there were apple branches low enough to the ground so that little kids would be able to pick them. However, since Matt is tall he could reach the ones at the top of the trees that hadn't been picked over. We collected PLENTY but as we were leaving the guy was trying to tell us to take more. I guess he is the guy that works for the farm and has to pick the rest of the apples after the Apple Jubilee is over and there isn't pick-your-own anymore.
After we got back Matt went to conference with Dad, Nathan and John. Lindy, Mom and I watched a movie at Mom and Dad's. Priesthood doesn't start until 8 o'clock so when it was over they went to Sonic and then we all just went home.

Today we went to conference at noon. Then we ate "lunch" in between. It was really dinner but since it was at lunchtime I guess it qualifies as lunch. We had to make it and eat it with enough time to drive back to the church. Let's just say we were eating really fast. After the second session we all went back and had some pie and played some games. We were going to play apples to apples but Dad doesn't like that game. So then we played Take Two which is a variation of Speed Scrabble. I love speed scrabble, we used to play it with the Egberts. In Take Two you take two tiles instead of one each time someone completes their puzzle. I almost won but John took it in the last round but about 20 points....sad.