Cider Mill (Michigan)

Elizabeth and I made a quick trip to Michigan to attend a friend's wedding in Detroit. You'll see info about that in the next post. While we were there, we stayed with Kevin and Chrystal. Grammy flew in to see Elizabeth. We had the opportunity to go to Blake's Cider Mill.

Chrystal, Ethan, Nolan, Grammy, Elizabeth and I visited the cider mill on Saturday afternoon. It was a beautiful sunny day, a little brisk, enough to want to wear a hat. I forgot how much I love fall. The crisp smell of the air, the beautiful colored trees and listening to Michigan football on the radio. There were a lot of people at the cider mill too!

There were all kinds of activities to keep us busy. The kids played in a Pumpkin shaped bounce house. Then we walked to see the animals. Then we went to the barn where there was musical story telling by robotic animals, very cute. The corn field maze was next and we almost got lost a few times. Then the kids ran around on some of the toys, you can see the pictures. A train ride was next. This was a lot of fun going through the apple tree orchards and seeing all of the different kind of apples. The farm also had a u-pick area where people were picking the last harvest of all types of fresh vegetables. We also saw the raspberry bushes! Oh how we all miss walking into our backyard and picking fresh raspberries.

The kids started getting antsy and we knew it was time to move on. We made it to the last stop....fresh cider and donuts. We bought a gallon and a dozen cider donuts and went home to eat them. Wow! They tasted so good. You take for granted those things when you have them all the time. You really appreciate them when they are not accessible. I have never seen apple cider here in China.

We would have like to bought a pumpkin and brought it back to China to carve, but they don't let you do that! We can buy pumpkins here, but they are not bright orange, so it doesn't seem the same.

Great visit with family!