A Delicious Day

It is Sunday, and the day started for me in a truly delicious way... I slept in. Chris started the day off entertaining the kids while I slept in. Yes, people. He is that awesome. After breakfast, we walked to the farmers’ market. The East Towne Community Farmers Market is brand new, runs on Sundays and is only a few blocks away from where we live.

The vendors were so friendly and we wanted to buy something from everyone- just to encourage them to keep coming back. We love having a walk-able farmers market! We bought beets and cilantro and pumpkins, peppers and watermelon. Despite the urge to support the farmers market (single-handedly if necessary), we could only justify buying what wasn’t growing in our garden. Which is still quite a lot, actually. We strolled over to the garden and harvested brussels sprouts, carrots, tomatoes, beans, radishes, strawberries (there were THREE still hanging on!) and onions.

It was time for lunch and Ella's nap, but the kids found Box Elder bugs and we just had to play at the playground on the way home.







Mmmmmmmmmmmmm... Box Elder bugs. Delicious.

After lunch (not Box Elder bugs, just leftover pizza) and Ella’s nap, we were ready to get outside again. The day was stunningly fall and glorious.

It was apple picking time.


We drove to Door Creek apple orchard and we picked us some apples. And ate some apples. And picked some more apples. And ate some more apples. Try this one! How about this one! Oh! This one is great! Nom, nom, nom. While there, we also went for a horse carriage ride around the orchard and met a wonderful couple with 10 month old twins who we shared the ride with. Twins. How do they do it? They looked at Jay who was trying to launch himself off the back of the horse drawn carriage and Ella who was headed the other direction, trying to climb on top of the horses and I am sure they wondered the same thing.

From there, we drove to the coolest playground ever:


We didn’t know that they would be hosting the Monona Family Fall Festival there today. They had Alpacas and chickens to poke little fingers at, a pumpkin hunt, fire trucks, live music, pony rides, and kayaks to paddle around in the creek behind the playground. We played until we were too hungry to play anymore (though we had ten pounds of apples in the car, not a one of us could eat one more apple) and decided to head home. But on the way home, we drove past an ice cream shop that we had to explore. I mean, who doesn't want ice cream from a place with a sign that has a fish and an ice cream cone in the same picture?




They had Babcock Hall ice cream, which is made at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Science program. There aren’t many places off-campus that sell it, so we really had to stop.



The kids went with Blue Moon, but I opted for orange custard with chocolate chips and Chris went with a berry choice. We finished our ice cream on the playground across the street from the ice cream shop. Now we are popping corn for our weekly Sunday night tradition. Delish!

I suppose I should have titled this, "The post in which I write in excruciating detail of a day full of good weather, good food and good fun," but then you might not have read it, and then where would we be?

Every once in a while, you have one of those days that you'd love to remember in brilliant detail. Because it was so very delicious. Today was one of those days.