Apple Picking

By the time I usually think about picking apples, apple season in NC has passed (yes surprisingly there is such a thing as apple season in NC). The good place to go for apples is Hendersonville, but at 2 hours away, it's a bit of a hike for a day trip. Sometime I'd like to go there though, for a weekend maybe. Anyway, today what with the fall-like weather lingering on, we decided to take the kids up to Mooresville, about an hour north of Charlotte, to do some apple picking a little closer to home. The kids picked enough apples to make about a thousand pies (I see some pie baking in my future) and then checked out the resident farm animals, and the family dog. Our friends Melanie and Jeff met us there with their daughter Amelia (Rebecca's BFF) and we helped them pick some apples and then went out to lunch. It was a successful outing, and the rain held off for the most part.