Apple Picking in the Adelaide Hills - what joy!

Morning,

I just wanted to share some of the most fun I have had in ages!  After a word from my amazing friend Helen, who is a wealth of knowledge on all things "Adelaidian", I headed into the Adelaide Hills on Saturday morning with my two Darling Daughters and one of said Daughters' BFF's!

We drove through wonderful winding roads, skirting the edge of streams and little farms, some of which had the most amazing stone cottages on them - that will have to be an exploration for another day -all the while enveloped in a misty rain.  We even found a castle, well at least what remains of a castle.

After only 20 minutes or so we found our way to Summertown and Hollidays Rd and an old apple grove.  We were met by two kindly farmers who explained which apples were ready to pick and we were off!  The kids were so excited and were running everywhere, I just sort of stood there, with a lovely gobsmacked look on my face and inhaled the scent of wet grass and fresh apples!!!!  Glorious indeed.

We spent the next hour picking apples and exploring the grove, we found the older trees had "knitted" together in one section to create something out of a fairytale, just magical.

The Fruits of our labour!

If you are interested in picking fresh apples then head up to Hollidays Rd, Summertown - the easiest way is just to follow Greenhill Rd all the way to the top, once you get to Summertown, turn left into Hollidays Rd and the Apple Grove is on the Left about 500 metres down the road.  They are open on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 11am through till July.

Enjoy!

Now I am off to make some apple sauce, jam and pies ....



Random Post - its been a long week

Hello to anyone out there!

Well it has been a very long week, work has been insane - not overly busy, but lots of interuptions!  I am soooo glad it is Friday!

Tomorrow we are heading out to watch the last Crows AFL game for the season, not being AFL followers this should be very interesting.  In Queensland we were huge supporters of the North Queensland Cowboys, well of course we would be - their home, Dairy Farmers Stadium, is just down the road from our home.  They play in the National Rugby League competition, and being from NZ originally I don't mind watching a game or two of Rugby Union, but this Aussie Rules Football has got me stumped!  But we thought that we would have to experience a live game seeing as we now live in SA!  Wish us luck!

Sunday will also be a huge day for us - my wonderful cousin Raewyn and her equally groovey husband Ralph are visiting friends in Adelaide and we are stealing them for a day of sightseeing and Cellar Door Visiting in the very special Adelaide Hills region - it is sooooo spectacular at this time of the year - daffodils in the fields everywhere and blossum on all the fruit trees.  The weather is predicted to be a perfect winters day, so I am really looking forward to sharing our adopted home with them!  They are thinking about moving down this way in the future, which we hope is in the very near future, would be lovely to have family here!

Also Lillian is off on her first ever school camp!  She is so excited, has packed and re-packed her bag soooo many times!  We will miss her for two nights, but hope that she enjoys camp as much as I did at her age!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!