nothing beats picking apples and drinking wine

I went apple-picking with Todd and a bunch of his friends on Saturday. I went last year with my parents, brother, sister-in-law, and their 2 little boys. We went after it had rained for about a week straight and there was mud just about every where you went. It was cold, windy and cloudy but all that mattered was that the boys were having fun. This time, there were a few clouds in the sky, there was no wind and it was wamer than usual out. There were about 12 of us and we all met at Honey Pot Hill, which does not have a website, but the orchard is huge. There are endless rows of apple tree's that are filled with apples from the top to the bottom. Usually you need a ladder to pik the apples because the good ones are at the top. But this time, they were all over the treee's. I have to admit, apple-picking is probably more fun for kids. I don't think it's as exciting for adults to pick apples off a tree as it is for kids. I almost think kids would be more willing to eat an apple if they picked it themselves. Adults fill a large bad of apples, and most of the time they bring the bag home and they just sit on the counter. No one ever eats all of the apples they pick. They either make an apple pie, an apple crisp or apple sauce. After about 2 hours of apple-picking, we got some cider and cider donuts, which were really good. We then went for lunch to T.C Lando's, which is the brother restaurant to Carl's. T.C Lando's was pretty good, even better if you like steak, which is their specialty. They have about 20 different kids of steak subs to choose from, and although I do not eat meat, Todd's "Cheery Bomb" was, no pun intended, the "bomb". It was filled with steak, bbq sauce, pepperoni, peppers and there might have been another ingredient somewhere in there. But when he opened that 12 inch sub, he was pretty much the center of attention. He didn't feel so good afterwards, but it was well worth it, according to him! I had a Veggie Baja (vegi burrito) to be exact. That was good too, can't complain! After T.C Carlo's, we went to Nashoba Valley Winery for some wine tasting and wine drinking. That place was absolutely packed with everyone from little kids running around with their parents, to older men & women in canes and walkers. We walked in and the wine tasting was to the left, which had long lines and the wine racks filled with wine all around. There was a tour that we could have done, but it was 45 minutes and we just wanted to talk our time to look around, and buy some wine. And we did just that. We decided that we weren't quite ready to leave yet, so we bought 2 extra cold bottles of wine, had them opened at the wine-tasting corner, found a table outside and between about 10 of us, we all polished off 2 bottles of wine, 2 bottles of beer and a block of rich cheddar cheese. We sat outside for about an hour until Todd and I had to leave for a dinner date with some other friends.