On Saturday, we visited the Turner Farm in Buena Vista for an old fashioned apple picking festival. This event was small, but so much fun. We won a cake at the cake walk, Ruby made a corn husk doll, we picked veggies from the community garden, pet goats, picked a bag of apples, sewed on a foot peddle sewing machine, helped make butter and more. Ruby just had a ball. The event and activities were free...very amazing in this day and age! Afterwards, we hiked Ruby Mountain. A little mountain near Buena Vista. They call it Ruby Mountain because you can find tiny garnets embedded in the rocks. To top it off the weather was PERFECT! It was a day for the books!
On Sunday we celebrated the Moon Festival, even though it really was Monday. We used the veggies from the Turner farm for our dinner and then broke in the highly anticipated moon cake box. It was very hard for Ruby not to eat any the previous day. The metal Chinese decorated tin contained four different flavored moon cakes; red bean paste (Ruby's favorite), lotus flower, nuts and melon. My favorite was a toss up between the lotus and melon. The red bean paste was really good too. Ruby told us that typically everyone stays up until mid-night on the moon festival, we weren't able to stay up that late because she had school the next day. Maybe next year. I'll post some photos soon :)
On Sunday we celebrated the Moon Festival, even though it really was Monday. We used the veggies from the Turner farm for our dinner and then broke in the highly anticipated moon cake box. It was very hard for Ruby not to eat any the previous day. The metal Chinese decorated tin contained four different flavored moon cakes; red bean paste (Ruby's favorite), lotus flower, nuts and melon. My favorite was a toss up between the lotus and melon. The red bean paste was really good too. Ruby told us that typically everyone stays up until mid-night on the moon festival, we weren't able to stay up that late because she had school the next day. Maybe next year. I'll post some photos soon :)
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Hi Tara. Sounds like you all had a fun celebration. I bet the moon cakes were yummy. Ruby looks so happy on her field trip. That is a great photo. I'm glad to hear that school continues to go well for her.
I am so sorry to hear about your trip to the hospital. Feel better, and take good care of yourself. Mommy's are not supposed to get sick! :)
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