However (and this is a serious however), Lane's birthday is also tomorrow. Since nothing can coincide with the sacredness of birthdays, I decided we'd complete Day 1 activity the day before, skip the official Day 1 and carry on with Day 2 like usual. (Did you follow that?)
For our first get-yourself-psyched-for-Halloween activity, we were to visit an apple orchard:
the blurry proof
The kids were really excited, aka, they reluctantly pulled themselves away from Dinosaur Train, which is a major coup in my world.
Tragically, North Texas bites the big one on this. EVERY orchard has been closed for the season. ONE remained open, I called and received a recording stating "we are open for schools and private tours. Currently we are closed to the public."Fabulous.
Plan B: Obtain apples the size of your head in lieu of cool apple orchard experience (my I miss you, my Apple Hill ... maybe I'll just have to fly home for Day 1 from now on ...). There was only one place to go:
We got the massive apples (for Day 3's homemade apple cider),
some equally fabulous berries and, as consolation for the lame apple-orchard-excursion substitute, I let Jane pick out gourmet cupcakes for herself and Elliot.
I can hear my friend's husband laughing at this outcome. For, when he heard of our Day 1 activity, he simply replied, "I can just take them to Kroger and get them a bag of apples for $1 a pound." How very prophetic he ended up being.
But I will build lasting family memories if it kills me. I just hope our yearly apple orchard excursion doesn't include Central Market again.
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I love this whole Halloween countdown you're doing. And since I plan on stealing the entire idea for myself one day (giving the credit of course as any good fellow journalist would do) I hope you'll be updating us on all the days as you count down :)
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