While at the housewarming party last Saturday, we had heard about this place in Yupaica, where you can pick your own apples and press your own apple cider (which is basically pressed unfiltered apple juice, so it's cloudy, not clear like the usual apple juice - it's also so much more delicious than juice). K quickly did an internet search when we got home and so this is how we found Oak Glen, less than an hour away from Claremont. How could we not go?
We had lunch at Apple Annie's at Oak Glen Village, where their motto is "You'll never go away hungry" - at dinner, you can get free second helpings! Lunch was pretty good, but what really wowed us was dessert: deep dish apple pie with vanilla ice cream.
It really whetted our appetite for more apples, which was perfect since we were headed to the apple farms next.
We went to Riley's Log Cabin & Farm; they had Spartan, Red Delicious and Jonathon apple varieties available for picking today. It was such a beautiful day today - bright bright sunshine, yet not scorchingly hot. The light made the apples look so good, in such beautiful shades of pink, peach and red. Quite gorgeous. Everyone had a go at picking the apples, even E! It was fun.
After visiting the apple farm, we brought the kids to the petting zoo in the Oak Glen village. J loved it, since he's in such an animal phase right now. He didn't flinch at all when the goats came butting up against him, nuzzling and smelling him. The goats were hungry, man. One actually climbed up on me to try to get at the corn feed I was holding. I was screaming, while K and J were quite bemused. E, I think, was bewildered. Unfortunately, I broke out in hives - argh. So I think I am allergic to goats. Or pigs. Or the feed. This was definitely the least pleasant part of today!
We'll be back to the apple farms, probably on a weekend next time, so that we can press our own cider and maybe pick some raspberries too! No petting zoo the next time.
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