This weekend we went out to some apple orchards to get some freshly picked apples. The orchards are close to Redlands, where I lived for about 3 years when I was 4 to 6 years old. I remembered my old address (probably because it was the first one I ever learned) and we were able to find my old house. It looks so "sixties," but I did live there in the early sixties.
We noticed that there was a historical landmark very close to the house and so we went to look at it. It's an 1897 victorian house on 6 acres of land that was owned by J. Alfred Kimberly, a founder of the Kimberly-Clark paper company. The house and the italian-style gardens were amazing, but we couldn't go into the house because it wasn't open for visitors at the time of day we were there.
We left Relands and went on to Oak Glen, a little town with several apple farms where you can pick your own apples or buy fresh apples and cider.
They also have a petting zoo with a strange assortment of animals - goats and ostriches.
You can pick your own raspberries, although we didn't this time.
Have you ever heard of apple tasting? One farm had slices of the 15 or 20 different types of apples that they grow for visitors to taste!
And of course the best part of the whole trip was getting a slice of fresh apple pie a la mode!
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