Taking One day Trips

Taking one day trips is a popular thing that my family enjoys doing. We always take at least one in the fall up to Gay Mills in Wisconsin.  We always go with two other families there, and take my aunt and uncle’s SUV so we can all go together, which makes it all the more fun. It’s so pretty up there especially in the fall with the leaves turning. Once you get up there; there’s a festival and different apple orchards that you can go to along this one road. One of our favorite shops is the Sunrise Orchard.  They have amazing apples and samples, such as apple cider, caramel apples, apple donuts, and many other delicious apple treats that we enjoy. They also have a lot of different fun activities that occur there. When we were there they were handing caramel apple suckers out, they had a character drawing, coloring section, and they were having magic tricks and many more fun things.  

                There are many different orchards that you can stop at or you can also go pick your own apples.  We never have really done that because other family members have and they always have a blast. You go out in a big field and pick the delicious apples off the beautiful trees. But if you would want to pick you own apples then you would have to go at the beginning of the season so the apples aren’t all picked over.

                The one orchard has a really fun corn maze that the families can go through which is a really fun tradition and most of the orchards have something unique to do. And all of these shops have such delicious foods not just apples but donuts, and Wisconsin is known for their cheese curds, homemade wines for the adults, apple cider and many more.

                Then when we are all done then we always stop to for supper either in PraireDuChien or Maquoketa at Flap Jack, which is very delicious.  And then start our long journey home which is always sad because then that trip is always over for the year. We always use all of our apples up by making homemade apple pies, apple crisp or just plain eating them.

                Even though this is always just a day trip, it’s always something we look forward to doing every year.  And we always make the day worthwhile with leaving early in the morning and getting home late that night.