apple picking

we went apple picking. i like to go when it's quiet and everyone is in school but this year i picked the school holiday for yom kippur! when we pulled into the orchard parking there were so many cars and people walking every which way! luckily we were very behind in our day's schedule and were ready to pick apples when everyone else was leaving to have their dinner. the weather was beautiful and there was a corn maze to wade through while we waited for nana and nonno to arrive. we overloaded our bag and had to keep finding interesting ways of balancing apples upon apples while carrying the bag to the car. and, yes, we ate a lot of apples while picking.