The Fruit Loop with Grandma and Gramps...

Last weekend, my parents were up for a visit and we decided to head out for an adventure to Hood River to check out the "fruit loop". It was a great time and my dad now has apples for at least the next year. Here are Gramps and Abby picking out pumpkins at Rasmussen's farm, the first stop on our adventure.
Libby wanted to pick out her own pumpkin.

Abby is so cute!


Libby wanted to pull the cart.




Then, we moved on to the Kiyokawa Family Farms, where they were having the heirloom apple festival and Abby got to taste-test over 75 different varieties of apples. She thought that was great. They also had this fort where the girls had a blast. After this stop, the back of the van was weighted down with about a hundred pounds of apples.




Next stop was Mt. View Orchards and Fruit stand for their "Edelweiss Day", complete with German food and fresh apple cider. We brought some of the cider home and it's yummy. Here's Libby giving Mommy "the look".

We made one more stop, which was at Apple Valley's Heirloom Apple Butter Festival, where Grandma and I bought a couple of jars of apple butter while everyone else lounged in the van. Then, on to Multnomah Falls.

Neither of my parents had actually stopped at Multnomah Falls or the lookout at Crown Point, so we did both on our way back from Hood River.

By the time we got to the falls, it was drizzly, so we didn't get out to explore much.

All in all, it was quite an adventure for one day!