Uncle John's Cider Mill

On Halloween, we took my mom on a trip to Uncle John's Cider Mill up in St. Johns, MI. We had never been, but had heard good things about it. I'm glad my mom had her camera or else I wouldn't have been able to document this. Thanks Mom!

Roswell

Donovan

Elliott

They had lots of things to enjoy. They have an apple orchard and harvest their own apples and make their own cider. We had lunch (which was surprisingly priced well) and had some of their homemade cider. Yum! It really tasted like we were drinking an apple. They also grow corn, which we got to walk through because they made a maze out of it. And they grow acres of pumpkins. They also have a hayrides, train rides, and a fun play area for the kids.

The kids had a blast playing on the fun toys. It took a while to get us to leave to pick out our pumpkin. There were lots of pumpkins left, but we had to get the perfect one. Since it was already Halloween we had to look a while for the right one. We ended up picking 2 pumpkins to take to pay for. We get to the store and the kind lady says that the pumpkins are free today. We think they were just trying to get rid of them because nobody really wants pumpkins after Halloween, and they won't keep for Thanksgiving. It was our lucky day! She told us to take all we wanted. Yes, Mam! We took our van closer to the patch and loaded up. We calculated it afterwards and figure we got over $100 worth of pumkins and gourds for decoration, cooking, and carving. I think getting pumpkins on Halloween might be a good tradition for us to start up. Earlier I was yelling at myself for waiting until the last minute to get a pumpkin, now, not so much.

Who can resist free pumpkins? (P.S.- this was only a pic. opportunity, we didn't get these ugly pumpkins)