Lack of Pickage

We had a really great weekend up in Greenville although it was pushed back a day because Wyatt was battling the flu or something all week. He was puking and all that gorgeousness but they both had the flu shot already so I don't know what flavored virus this was.

So we left on Saturday and only stayed up there one night. Our main intention was to go apple picking which ended up being a flop. To start at the beginning though, we went to Furman first just to poke around. The weather all weekend couldn't have been anymore perfect.

We drove to the top of Paris mountain knowing the view would be awesome with such clear weather and then headed back downtown to explore Reedy River Park. Downtown Greenville is seriously one of the cutest little cities ever. I miss it. We ate and shopped a little bit before trying to get the kids settled for bed. I really love the beach, but the mountains are such a striking opposite that they can sometimes be equally as gorgeous, especially at sunset.

We met some friends up in Flat Rock, NC on Sunday morning at Sky Top Orchard. We knew it was towards the end of the season, but it seemed like we pretty much missed it completely. Although the orchard was still swarming with people, there were ZERO apples left to be picked. We walked around for quite awhile and finally found a few crab apples for the kids to pick which served the purpose, but nothing we found was bigger than a golf ball.

It honestly didn't bother me (or them) at all because our main focus was on the hot apple cider donuts. Ohmagah! I can't even describe the perfection of these heavenily donuts to you in words. They were worth the trip alone in all their warm-appliciousness-rolled-in-cinnamon-sugar glory. They are fried in hot oil too which gives them a kiss of crunchiness on the very outer edges. I'm sure they are hugely unhealthy but we still managed to kill a quick dozen.

None of us were really ready to come back home, and we probably wouldn't have if Brent didn't have to get home to head right back out-of-town again. Overall, it was a great little fall weekend getaway but we will definitely be visiting the apple orchard earlier next year. I heart Greenville.