Day Trip!

Last Sunday Daddy really wanted to do something other than stay home.  Unfortunately, every place he could think of was either closed or only open at night.  Then he thought of a place Mama had wanted to stop on our vacation but was closed at the time.  So, Daddy looked it up and it was open! After church we headed out.  Turns out it was a really neat apple orchard!

Mama was interested in the gemstone mining, but it wasn't really mining.  Daddy had to go buy a bag of dirt from the gift shop and we got to clean it up.  Here I am watching Mama to see what I needed to do...

Trying it myself...

Gotta wash all the dirt away to find the pretty rocks...

Look! I found one!

After we checked out the mining operation, we walked around and checked things out.  There was a little playground area with things for kids to play with.  I made music...

and played on the wooden truck...

and even got silly on the "roller coaster"! (in case you didn't notice, I was going down backwards!)

We also walked around the gift shop, had caramel apples (me) - donuts (daddy) - and peach ice cream (mama), and got to see the cider mill (it wasn't running for the year yet, though).

I had fun and I hope we go back again!