Ever since I can remember my family has had an annual tradition with the LeClere family...Apple Day!!! I have many fond memories of Apple Day over the years, including apple orchards, pumpkin patches, hay rides, picnics, tailgating, and lots of laughter! The scenery has changed over the years, from small apple orchards in Evansville to Huber Winery to tailgating at IU and Notre Dame. Unfortunately, because of travel schedules and campaigning, we are not able to have the Ewing/LeClere Apple Day this year. However, Scott, Gracie and I did not want to skip a year altogether. Therefore, we had our own little Apple Day on Saturday!
We began with apple picking at an orchard in Southern Michigan. We were able to pick some delicious varieties, including Red/Yellow Delicious and Empire. Scott was thrilled that they also had Honey Crisp apples. These are the best apples we have ever eaten! We got hooked on them last year and now it's difficult to convince Scott to eat another variety. If you have never tasted one I would highly recommend it. Just beware - they are addicting!
After lots of apple picking and tasting, we continued on to St. Joe, Michigan (yes, we were there last weekend too). We had a wonderful dinner and then ventured out to the beach and pier on Lake Michigan. Gracie had so much fun playing on the beach playground, and just loved going out to the pier!
We had Tivod the Notre Dame / Penn State game. Little did we know it was a waste of our time to stay up until 12:30 and watch the game. We certainly enjoyed last year's Apple Day game much better, when the Irish trounced the Nittany Lions at Notre Dame Stadium!
Mom, Dad, Matthew, Vanessa and the entire LeClere clan - we definitely missed you this year but we look forward to many more years of Apple Day in the future! We also got a new game that we can play...Shout About TV. Just wait...it's barrels of fun!
Click here for lots of Apple Day 2007 pictures!
4 comments:
I love the pictures! Oh, what fond memories the pictures bring! Next year, we will continue our family tradition. Let's call this year just a "detour"!!
Grace is just darling!
Love, Mom
What a great tradition to continue. Vanessa and I will be doing our part - IU homecoming game with the LeClere's on October 20th and then we are planning our own apple day mid October. Location - Huber Winery...I'm sure it will spark many fond memories.
We are enjoying this"BLOG" sooo much.Love the stories,the pictures and memories you are making for yourselves and Gracie.We too picked Apples every Fall.What fun,
Gracie is getting LOTS of hair,she is just beautiful.What a wonder family you make.Love you
So is this the same shout about tv edition that you played w/ us- CHEATERS!!!! So where can I get these honey apples? Hopefully when we come for the MSU game there are some available and Scott didn't eat them all!
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