We went apple picking today at an orchard in Conway Springs. We've been there before, about two years ago. We were the only ones there…and surprisingly it really wasn’t muddy except for a few mud holes on the dirt road leading out to the orchard.

We picked Jonathon and Gala apples…the boys ran from tree to tree trying to find the “bestest” ones. We even ate a few apples while we were picking! Zach liked to point out the ones with holes and mushy apples on the ground. We also saw a black caterpillar which the boys seemed very interested in watching.

After that we went into “town” and played at the city park. They have a life-sized red caboose that you can climb on. The caboose was on a section of a railroad track and Zach kept finding “families of bugs” on the tracks. Then it was off to the jungle gym, swings, teeter totter, and merry-go-round. The merry-go-round seemed to be the favorite…jumping off while it was going around. This resulted in both of them getting very muddy and we made the boys strip down so they wouldn’t track mud all over the van.