I Went to a Fall Festival

When I set up Miniflux as my RSS feed reader, I added a local independent news site so I can be more in touch with my community. I wanted to be aware of important initiatives like making my city more bike and pedestrian friendly, as well as any fun events I’d like to go to.

One of those events was a fall festival hosted by an orchard farm during the Labor Day long weekend, so today I drove an hour there with my brother and had a blast together! It’s a lovely farm, with their own farmer’s market and diner, and it had several activities for the fall festival.

The first thing we both did was jaunt over to the corn maze. We’ve never been to one before, so it was exciting as our very first time! We just followed the left-hand side the whole time, talking to each other about Magic the Gathering and indie horror games. I reminisced that if we were kids, with a bunch of other kids our age, we’d all probably be running through the maze trying to find the quickest way out >w<

Before we left the farm, we went through the maze a second time, following our same path, but this time I tracked my route to see what it would look like. I think my phone reduced its accuracy when it turned off its screen

Afterwards, we visited the market. They had a lot of homemade whoopie pies and cookies, maple syrup and maple candies, apple cider and local sodas, and of course fresh produce. I was tempted by the maple cream and homemade rice crispies, but I was being conscious of my spending. I didn’t take any photos other than these mushrooms I saw :3

And then I got myself some yummy food!! It was a grilled fennel sausage with roasted peppers and onions, which I topped with mustard and relish, and a side of chips and apple cider. I was surprised by how big the hot dog was, and it was just as surpsingly soft and so homey and delicious. I want to learn how to make this myself at home!

We then hitched a ride on a tractor, going all the around the farm while my brother talked to me about Pocket Frogs, an OG mobile game. It was nice sitting down and taking in the view, though the sun started hitting down on my back a lot.

Once we got off, we went to to go peach picking! They also had apples, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. My brother and I picked 4 nectarines, 5 white peaches, and 6 yellow peaches that we thought were ripe enough. (Fingers crossed!) The half a peck was pretty pricey at $30 though >.<

To cool ourselves off after cooking in the sun, we went to get some ice cream frappes. I got cotton candy flavor, and my brother went with maple walnut. We had a great time together at the festival—and we didn’t do everything there was to do—so next year I wanna go with a few of my best friends :3