Apple Hill Weekend

I haven't done a weekend update in a long time, but with one of our favorite Fall weekends, I had to recap. Last weekend, we went to Apple Hill and Ferrari Farms Pumpkin Patch. We crossed off at least two big Fall bucket list items.

Saturday morning we got up bright and early and headed up to Truckee for breakfast at Marty's Cafe. We love this place. You want to make sure you get there right when they open up at 8 am to get a seat. After breakfast, we headed to Apple Hill.

Our first stop was Lava Cap Winery. We have never been there before, but it had amazing reviews on Yelp. We did a wine tasting while the girls hung out on the deck with some coloring books.

 You can taste as many as you want for $5, or free with the purchase of one bottle.

Deck views.

After enjoying some tasting and buying a few bottles, we headed to the next stop, Abel's Apple Acres. This apple orchard is geared towards kids. They had all sorts of picture displays, a goodie store, farm animals, bounce houses, sand candle making, crafts and more.

After hanging out for awhile, we headed over to Boa Vista Orchards where the girls got their faces painted, we walked around the crafts, bought a bunch of goodies and had fantastic people watching.

We were all starting to get hungry, so we headed over to the Jack Russell Brewery for a beer and some lunch!

After lunch, we headed over to Bodhaine Ranch for some pie. We had never been here before, but we heard they have amazing pies. We got a frozen pie and a caramel apple bar to go. While Rory was paying, I took the girls to the bathroom. It was a handicap bathroom, so we asked if the girls could use it since they refuse to use a porta-potty. The owner dropped many f-bombs at the employee who asked him for us and we could hear it all. I wasn't happy to say the least. I think their pies are good, but the owner needs to learn some manners. Not sure if we will be back or not.

Next, we hit up Apple Ridge Farms. We walked through their crafts, their Christmas house, the food, and over to the kids area. This is where the girls started melting down, so we decided it was time to head back so they could finally nap in the car.

We stopped at our favorite pizza spot in Lake Tahoe and watched the Georgia game. Then we headed home.

Sunday, my in-laws asked if we were going to go to the same pumpkin patch as last year and we realized that Sunday was the only day we could go this month before Halloween. So we made plans to head over around 11 am. We searched for pumpkins, went on two hay rides, the girls jumped in the huge pumpkin bounce house, they had lunch and ice cream and went to the petting zoo. We spent just over 2 hours there and the girls had a blast!

 We got two pumpkins to carve as a family, two for the girls as decorations and then a monster pumpkin for decoration outside!

The girls enjoying their ice cream near the ponies.

We headed home and put the girls down for a nap. Then we did the usual Sunday things. We cleaned, cooked dinner, went grocery shopping, hit up Costco and prepped for the week ahead.

How was your weekend?