Apple Picking.....(minus the picking)

We made the trip out to Kuipers Apple Farm last weekend because I have always wanted to go apple picking and had grand images of taking Bel to her first apple orchard. I thought I would get all kinds of awesome photo ops of her picking apples in the beautiful fall weather. Well, it turns out everyone else in the free world had the same idea last weekend. When we arrived there were literally HUNDREDS of people waiting in line (and only two registers open at the gate) So... we scrapped the apple picking plan and decided just to go into the orchard store and BUY our apples. (Hey, why not? We knew they were ripe and clean) We also got other yummy sweets and treats like apple doughnuts, hot chocolate, homemade popcorn etc. Then we just let Bel run around and play outside for an hour. I don't think she actually knew the difference and as you will see from the pics she TOTALLY enjoyed her honey crisp apple.