One thing that I love about Rochester is their love of Apple Orchards. We have several that are a short drive from our home. Every year the preschools and kindergartens get to go on a field trip to an orchard. This year I got to go with Andy's class. It was a beautiful day and we had a good time with his class. We got a full instruction of how they pick and sort the apples, how they make apple cider, what they do with the rotten apples, and where they keep them (in a huge room that they keep at 30 degrees - it's a huge refrigerator room). The kids got to pick an apple, a small pumpkin, and try a few blueberries (although, I'm sure they don't compare to yours Miriam!). I love this first picture. The apple orchard man was telling us how they make apple cider and I wanted to get a shot of Andy listening with his teacher, Mrs. Huddleston. Andy has this sixth sense when it comes to cameras and at the last second he turned and gave me this cheesy smile.
This is us on the tractor trailer ride.
Andy with his Kindergarten class. He's in the back directly below the apple. You can barely see his face. Of course he had to be in the back because he's one of the tallest in his class.
Oh, my handsome Andy! Those blue eyes get me every time!
This slide was Michael's favorite because he'd go really fast and then biff it in the sand!
Michael eating sand after the fast slide.
When we've gone in past years, we've never taken time to feed the animals. Thanks to Grandma Bice who supplied the many quarters, the kids got to feed goats, bunnies, and chickens. They have these cool pipe things set up so all you have to do is drop the corn into the pipes and it goes to the animals. The chickens seemed especially hungry, so we spent most of our time with them. The kids really enjoyed doing this, thanks Grandma Bice!
Next to feeding the chickens, this was the other highlight of our trip. The pumpkin patch has these rubber ducks you can buy for $1.00 and then the kids can race them down this homemade water track as many times and they want. Michael absolutely loved it! He soaked himself from chin to knees. In fact he carried around his "bath duck" for days afterwards and eventually lost it. 
On the wagon ride.
Every wooden stand or photo opportunity that we passed, Haley had to stop and get her picture taken. We have several shots of her, but I only chose a few.
The pumpkin patch has several sandboxes spread throughout, some are big and some are small. We had to tear Michael away from this huge sandbox because we had more to see before it closed. He LOVED the sandboxes! At one point he was doing "sand angels" in the sand!
These black slides are always a favorite. The pumpkin patch has these slides at several places in the patch. The family who owns it made these slides out of some big black tubes. These slides are very fast and the kids always enjoy them!
We went through a corn maze and Andy was gracious enough to stop and let me get his photo next to the stalks.
Out of all the pumpkins we saw, Andy chose a very dirty one!
