Apple Picking

This Saturday we took the Metro North to Poughkeepsie with Jocelyn and Cory to meet up with a friend from MSU, Amy, who has been living in upstate NY for the past year. Saturday was also Sean's birthday and he was very excited to spend it getting some fresh air, picking apples, eating cider donuts and seeing some fall foliage.


We stopped in Rhinebeck for lunch which had an adorable downtown and then went a little further north to Red Hook. We picked a ton of apples (over 60 pounds all together between the 6 of us) at the first orchard we visited, and then found another orchard that also had cider and donuts. We also took a break at a coffee house to play a board game. Was this Sean's perfect day or what?


Most of the ripe apples were way up at the top so we used pickers.

The Jonagold apples were HUGE.


A required photo-op at any orchard!


They also had raspberries which was a surprise. I had no idea raspberries were available in the fall. Picking them was a little tedious, but worth it. They're super delicious and were only 2 dollars for a little box. The yellow ones are my favorite.

We headed back to Rhinebeck for dinner and found a very crowded Italian restaurant that just happened to have a table available for 6. The food was great and we were all very full and happy when we got back on the last train to Grand Central.

Now Sean and I have 24 pounds of fresh apples to get creative with. Some of them are going to be good for just eating as snacks. The orchard had Macoun apples which we'd never heard of but they tasted great. Others are destined for pie, applesauce and maybe an apple crisp and if we're feeling really adventurous, apple butter!