Apple Picking and Truck Festival

Even though it seemed that summer came back for just one more weekend, the fall activities are in full swing. On Friday, our MOPS group had a play-date at a local farm to pick some apples and enjoy a hayride. Since Amelia was in school, only Elliot and I went to hang out with our friends. We saw a beehive, took a hayride to the petting zoo and orchard, where we picked apples and had drank some delicious apple cider.

My little guy was most excited about the tractor ride, of course.

He also liked feeding the goats with soy beans and he was a big helper picking some apples.

Mommy and her little boy in the orchard:

Afterwards, he enjoyed the fruit of his labor (literally): a tasty apple and then some apple cider.

Apple picking was a fun outing and I'm sure that some of those apples will make it in to a pie or two.

Since my little boy loves everything that moves (trucks, trains, cars, etc), we decided to go to the Touch a Truck Festival in Huntersville on Saturday morning. This was their third annual fundraiser and they had all kinds of vehicles there for display and to climb in or on. There were several fire/ rescue trucks, police cars and motorcycles, towboats, ambulances, race cars, dump trucks, garbage trucks, a moving truck, and some construction vehicles. 

Amelia liked climbing in to the big trucks and the excavator.

On the other hand, Elliot enjoyed more the smaller vehicles such as this race car.

But both kids loved the bounce houses and decorating a cookie.

Before heading home, we watched an acrobatic/ dance performance by some teenagers, which was pretty impressive.

Despite the unexpected hot weather, the festival was well worth going. This was only the beginning of all the fall activities that are to come this season. It seems that every weekend from now on thru November there are multiple events going on around town and we are looking forward to visiting a few of them.