Apple Hill

Saturday, 8 December 2007

Mom had a few friends over today, Diane and Frank (who introduced Gary to mom a few years back), Judy and Scott (coworker friend, along with her sister and husband visiting from Ohio), and Julie, Michelle and Ashton (friends of my mom's ex, Tosh). We enjoyed a light brunch of muffins, croissants, coffee, and juice. We opened baby gifts and talked about things like camping, traveling in Southeast Asia, and living in Hawai'i.

After everyone left and we cleaned up, we headed up to Apple Hill, appropriately named because there are acres and acres of apple orchards. Around this time of year, families come and drink fresh apple cider, go trout fishing, cut down Christmas trees, go for pony rides, and buy homemade apple pies and apple fritters or just plain apples to take home with them. We got there kind of late, at 3 pm, and it was super cold. We walked around and drove around a bit to find different places that were open. Many were closing as the sun started to go down. But, we did enjoy taking pictures in front of the fall leaves, drinking apple cider, eating apple donuts, and taking home some apple juice.

On our hour drive back to Sacramento, Gary jokingly commented on how there was another REI on the way that we could stop at for one last shopping spree before Chris headed back home. I thought he was only joking, but we ended up pulling into the parking lot of the Folsom REI. The Santa fairy got some stocking stuffers and gifts for myself and Chris (It's a good thing I was able to ask Chris what cycling socks he already has or doesn't have.)

I caught up with Miya on the phone and got her order of Trader Joe requests (one place I haven't stopped at yet).

Tonight, we stopped for dinner in the downtown Sacramento area and ate at Crepeville, a cool place with savory crepes and dessert crepes, as well as yummy salads and potatoes. All of a sudden, Chase started coughing and choking...and Chase blessed Daddy again with a huge spit up all over himself and Daddy's pants. It's a good thing we carry lots of extra clothes for Chase. But, we discovered that we must have left our changing pad at the restaurant on Friday night.

We got home late and finished packing all of our gifts and omiyage as Chris leaves for Hawai'i in the morning.