Apple Ridge Orchard

Saturday, John and I finally had our day off on the same day. We have been waiting this for a few weeks now. It felt so much like we were normal people (not that you and Uncle Bob are not normal Aunt Linda) to be able to hang out together for the day.

We woke up at 8am, worked out, and booked our airline tickets for Christmas. We are going home from December 15th (a Friday) until January 1st. This is the longest visit we have ever taken. It just so happened that everything fell well for us to be gone this day and for me to still be only away from work for 9 working days.

Saturday afternoon, we headed to Apple Ridge Orchard. Was it cold? Yes sir, it was cold. Here is me at the Orchard. Let me tell you that underneath what you can see here, I also have on my infamous silk leggings, and a silk undershirt. Despite all this, my ears still ended our visit a bit early. Am I the only ones who's ears just freeze!?

We took the hayride out to the orchard. There weren't many people there, but there were some cats who appeared to like the hayride. JB and I had our traditional, "John can I have a cat?" conversation. Poor John. He takes such good care of me. He cannot help it that he is pretty stinkin' allergic to cats.

So here is me enjoying the closest thing to cats I will ever get.

Now JB, as I mentioned earlier, is allergic to cats. So he doesn't care to pet them if he can help it. Here is JB, hands in pockets. However, as you will notice, the cats did not care that JB did not want to pet them, pick them up, touch them, or anything else of the like. They seem to know who the allergic person is. Look at this cat hanging out on the wagon ride with JB.

Okay, enough of the cats. Here are some pics of us in the Orchard.

I also decided that I would try to take one of those pics of the two of us that you take while you are holding the camera. Here is my first attempt:

Here is my second attempt:



And here is JB's attempt. Quite a bit better don't you think?

Anyways, we attempted (unsuccessfully) to get some cherry preserves for Gabbi. Unfortunately, Gabbi, darling, they are sold out for the season! They promised to have more in August. Hmmm, not sure we can promise him we'll be there to get some in August. Our life is pretty up in the air. But we will see.

Anyways, hope I didn't show you too many pictures of JB and myself. But I guess this is my blog so there you go.

Today, I am going to get my hair cut and pick Tara up from the airport and hangout with the Rays. It shoudl be a fun day!