Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to go apple picking with the Architecture department at MIT. I had never been, and the department was paying for the transportation (and I later found out, the apples too), so I jumped at the chance. There were 8 of us in total plus two adults (for supervision?).
So without further ado, here's 10 things I learned about apple picking:
- It's really fun!
- Apples grow in weird bunches. It was very strange to me, and now I am questioning if I have ever seen an apple tree before. Also, apple trees don't look like orange trees. I know because we had one in California. Apple trees are much wimpier.
- There are a lot of different varieties of apples that look exactly the same.
- There exists a weird foamy-textured apple. It was really unappealing. We didn't pick any of those.
- Climb all the trees for all of the prettiest fruit.
- It was also really cold, which made it slightly less fun.
- Don't go at the same time as every person in the house. We now have more apples than we know what to do with. (But actually, I think across us all we have maybe around 100 apples?)
- Apple cider donuts are probably the best thing I've ever tasted.
- Scratch that, hot apple cider when you're shivering is probably better.
- I UNDERSTAND THE HYPE NOW.
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| When we first got there, Frankie got very excited. There she is in the tree, munching on apples like a maniac. |
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| I didn't know apples grew in like, clusters? It was very bizarre to me at first. |
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| My roommate is on the prowl for the best apples! |
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| Doh is also on the prowl but didn't forget to throw me a thumbs up for the picture. |
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| My roommate and I both got two half-bushel bags of apples. Mine were free (Thanks, MIT Architecture!). I love free things. |
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| Overall, definitely a fun experience and I would love to do it again! |
Have you ever gone apple picking? What's your favorite part about it?
