Apple Picking

Every year in Prague I wanted to go apple picking.  It just seemed to me to be an integral part of fall.  Having lived in a town in New Hampshire with five apple orchards we had our choice of places to go.  I looked and looked but could not find any place in or around Prague that had pick your own apples.  People have apple trees in their yards and that is it.  Last fall we lived next to an old apple orchard that produced tiny apples.  They were quite tasty and we did pick enough to eat as well as make an apple crisp but they were too small to make large quantities of apple sauce.  This year I couldn't wait to go apple picking.  One of the benefits of moving back to the states is that i could continue my fall activity of apple picking.  I was excited to bring the kids since they don't remember going apple picking.  We went to an orchard pretty close to our house and it was packed with people.  I have never been to an orchard that was so busy.  Once you were out in the trees though it didn't seem crowded and we had a lot of fun picking apples. 
Jason put the girls on his shoulders to pick some apples up high in the trees.  When we finished picking our bushel of apples we headed back to the little hut selling cider donuts.  There were so many people at the orchard this weekend that they limited the number if cider donuts to 6 per group.  It is a good thing they limited it because we definitely would have eaten more than we should have.  The donuts were so fresh that they were still warm!  By far the best cider donuts I've ever had.  Since the main store was so crowded and they ran out of cider we called it a day at the orchard and headed home.  We stopped at a farm stand on the way home to pick up some apple cider to make the day complete.