Apple Picking at Fort Salonga

Mishu filling the bag with apples she pluck...small one!!

Mishu looking for the next target!

Ripe Raspberry is quite sweet.

Raspberry Trees

Mishu inspect her apples.

Mishu suddenly bring her book to show me.It's Andy the Apple!!.I read for her but she keep flipping the pages to show me all the apples are with eyes and mouth.For a while I'm thinking,she might interested if she go to apple orchard to see the real apple.Quickly ,I 'google' in my area for apple picking farm.I found few farms in my county but the nearest one is fortsalongafarm.I tell Elliot about my idea and he agree to go with us.It's might be fun for Mishu,since she never pick any real apple from the orchard.It's just take us 20 minutes drive from our home.Elliot know his island better than me.Well,unfortunately,the farm policy insist each adult to paid $10 for 1/4 bushel of apples.I never been to this farm,so I find their policy are quite weird and unreasonable.I been to apple farm in Upstate ,New York and the farm didn't charge us per head count like here.Instead we just pick the apples and bring it to the cashier for weighting.We just paid whatever price goes by accordingly to the apple per pound.Elliot decided not to enter the orchard and he wait in our van for us.We can't even finish a bag of apple,for sure .The caretaker refused to let Elliot step in the orchard for photo taking.I find out that the caretaker is very bossy and intolerance person.They keep telling me about their rules and regulations.They ask me to twist the apple and not to pull the apple from the tree.Said it will hurt the tree and it won't bloom next year.One of the lady lecture me when Mishu simply plucked the unmarked apple tree.They give me a piece of paper in which indicated the numbers and names of each apple.I can only pluck the apples from the trees where it's mark with white flag.Later on,Elliot told me he heard they complaint about me.
Mishu is so excited when she see apple orchard for the first time.She been running and plucking the apple for the first 10 minutes.We just spend about 30 minutes in the orchard.Some of the apple is still unripe.I like Fuji apple but Fuji's is not ripe until October.Beside that the farm also have Raspberry picking.
On our way home ,I'm thinking,what should I do with the full bag of apples?'.Maybe I should bake some apple pie or make some apple jam.I have never bake any apple dessert or make any apple jam ,but there is always a first time for everything!!.I'm up to the challenge!!..