We drove up to Rexburg, since they have apple orchards on campus where you can pick your own apples, and you only have to pay 50 cents per pound, on the honor system. We figured we would get about 20 pounds of apples at the most, so we brought $10 with us to pay.
Apple picking turned out to be a lot of fun.
Many of the trees had been picked over pretty good, some of them weren't ready yet, and a lot had been attacked by birds or bugs, but we were still able to find a lot of good ones. We commandeered a ladder, and since Bruce is basically a giant, we were able to get some of the apples that others clearly couldn't reach.
We spent maybe a little over an hour walking around, picking apples, and having a good time before we decided our bags were full enough, and we went back to the shed to weigh them and pay.
Turns out that we had exceeded our goal of 20 pounds, and wound up with 40! Well, thankfully since it was the honor system, we were able to run to the bank and get more cash and come back to pay for the other half of the apples we had picked.
All the way home, Bruce kept saying, "That is a LOT of apples..."
Luckily, I have plans for them all, and they will be delicious!
Here are some more pictures of our silly adventure.
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