Autumn Activities... Apples, Monsters, & Wine
This weekend we embarked on several fall activities.
Friday: Comedy Club
I like my women like I like my "accountants":
1. Full of my digits
2. On a spreadsheet
3. Paid to do illegal things
Saturday: Virginia Adventure.
Stop #1: Apple picking
Our first stop on the list was an apple orchard in, Winchester VA, for apple picking. We went to Marker-Miller Orchards . I purchased a bag to collect apples in. I got the "peck" size which was supposed to hold 30 apples. Among some of the types of apples that I collected were Golden Delicious, Rome, and Crispin apples. I was only able to fit 15 apples in my "peck."
In the market store at the Orchards, we all ate an apple-cider donut. Everyone (but me) participated in a $2 "wine tasting," but in this wine tasting you got only a little bit of wine, enough to fill only half a mini-medicine cup.
I also bought apple-butter, cinnamon apple pancake mix, and two types of dog treats (a peace offering to Gusteau for being gone for so long).
Stop #2: The Creature
The second place we stopped at was supposed to be a pumpkin patch, but they didn't have much in the way of pumpkins. They did however have a giant blown-up creature in the middle of their corn field. This creature is like a giant blown up scary house, but in the shape of a giant lizard. At night the "creature" turns into the "monster" because there are live actors at night who scare you.
The point of the creature is that you go inside and it is like walking through the insides of the body of a monster. It was very dark, with occasional black lights and paint, and inside parts, and scary breathing and heartbeat music. You start by entering the mouth, move down the esophagus, past the heart, through the stomach, to the intestines, and out the butt. It was mostly scary because it was so dark and it was hard to tell where you were supposed to be going next. After the throat, we had to squeeze through very tight spaces. It would have been terrifying with actors in it. At the beginning, Crystal got so scared that we literally had to pull her by the arm in.
In the end, we survived the "Creature" and made it out undigested.
Stop #3: Lunch
We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch, and while this is nothing out of the ordinary, they had all of their Halloween decorations out for sale. What I found there were these material witch hands that are only hands and part of the arm. When I was little, Fay would always make witch hands and then hang them out of our piano. Now that I have a piano, I was very excited to find something similar.
Stop #4: Wine tasting
The last stop of the day was at a winery. We visited Barrel Oak Winery (B.O.W.). This was a very cosy winery and was very dog friendly. It made me sad I did not have Gusteau with me. The owner has dogs, and based the winery off them , including them in the logo, and pictures of them all over the walls, and some of the wines have their pictures on them. We paid $10 for a wine tasting (Which included 15 wines) while battling off the stink bugs that decided we would be a good group to bother (They went away as it got later). I liked some of the wines, and not others. We had a sheet and rated our wines as we went. I rated wine with variations of happy faces and sad faces.
I ended up buying one white wine (Kung Fu Girl) and one dessert wine. But it is funny that the two I liked the most were not from this winery. They were wines they brought in that were similar to theirs because they had run out of their version.
As the sun started to set, the owner came by and lit our little fire pit, and we watched the beautiful scenery.
Friday: Comedy Club
I like my women like I like my "accountants":
1. Full of my digits
2. On a spreadsheet
3. Paid to do illegal things
Saturday: Virginia Adventure.
Stop #1: Apple picking
Our first stop on the list was an apple orchard in, Winchester VA, for apple picking. We went to Marker-Miller Orchards . I purchased a bag to collect apples in. I got the "peck" size which was supposed to hold 30 apples. Among some of the types of apples that I collected were Golden Delicious, Rome, and Crispin apples. I was only able to fit 15 apples in my "peck."
In the market store at the Orchards, we all ate an apple-cider donut. Everyone (but me) participated in a $2 "wine tasting," but in this wine tasting you got only a little bit of wine, enough to fill only half a mini-medicine cup.
I also bought apple-butter, cinnamon apple pancake mix, and two types of dog treats (a peace offering to Gusteau for being gone for so long).
Stop #2: The Creature
The second place we stopped at was supposed to be a pumpkin patch, but they didn't have much in the way of pumpkins. They did however have a giant blown-up creature in the middle of their corn field. This creature is like a giant blown up scary house, but in the shape of a giant lizard. At night the "creature" turns into the "monster" because there are live actors at night who scare you.
The point of the creature is that you go inside and it is like walking through the insides of the body of a monster. It was very dark, with occasional black lights and paint, and inside parts, and scary breathing and heartbeat music. You start by entering the mouth, move down the esophagus, past the heart, through the stomach, to the intestines, and out the butt. It was mostly scary because it was so dark and it was hard to tell where you were supposed to be going next. After the throat, we had to squeeze through very tight spaces. It would have been terrifying with actors in it. At the beginning, Crystal got so scared that we literally had to pull her by the arm in.
In the end, we survived the "Creature" and made it out undigested.
"The Creature"
Entering "The Creature"
Pooped out by "The Creature"
Stop #3: Lunch
We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch, and while this is nothing out of the ordinary, they had all of their Halloween decorations out for sale. What I found there were these material witch hands that are only hands and part of the arm. When I was little, Fay would always make witch hands and then hang them out of our piano. Now that I have a piano, I was very excited to find something similar.
Stop #4: Wine tasting
The last stop of the day was at a winery. We visited Barrel Oak Winery (B.O.W.). This was a very cosy winery and was very dog friendly. It made me sad I did not have Gusteau with me. The owner has dogs, and based the winery off them , including them in the logo, and pictures of them all over the walls, and some of the wines have their pictures on them. We paid $10 for a wine tasting (Which included 15 wines) while battling off the stink bugs that decided we would be a good group to bother (They went away as it got later). I liked some of the wines, and not others. We had a sheet and rated our wines as we went. I rated wine with variations of happy faces and sad faces.
I ended up buying one white wine (Kung Fu Girl) and one dessert wine. But it is funny that the two I liked the most were not from this winery. They were wines they brought in that were similar to theirs because they had run out of their version.
As the sun started to set, the owner came by and lit our little fire pit, and we watched the beautiful scenery.
I hate that you get to experience fall and I do not
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