fall field trips

This Fall our family has been taking Fun Friday field trips.
We pick a local place that we think ourselves and the kids will enjoy and we spend the morning exploring it.

Nimbus Fish Hatchery  
& American River Hatchery
(where all the rainbow trout that Daddy and Hannah catch at lakes is from)

We saw thousands of fish

got some seriously cheap fish food

and fed the fish 

Peter really wanted to climb in for a swim with the fish.

We also learned all about how the salmon migrate back up the river to lay their eggs before dying.  (This month we are excited to go back to the Nimbus Hatchery to see the salmon swim up the ladders.)

Impossible Acres

a local farm that has a pumpkin patch and all types of baby animals for kids to experience

We held the ducks (okay, mostly just Hannah & I).

We watched the kids (baby goats) prance around our feet.

We chased the piglets.

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Grabbed some pumpkins.

And spent an usually warm October day at the farm.

Apple Hill
an awesome collection of Apple Farms

Here we did most of our exploring through eating. :)

We saw the crates of beautiful, fresh-picked apples.

Went to the sample bar to try every different variety of apple.

Fuji is still my favorite - but Hannah declared that both Pink Lady and Golden Delicous were delicious.  (I thought she would be biased to Pink Lady because of her love of pink but I was wrong.)

And along with a cup of fresh pressed cider we shared a piece of apple pie.

Yum!

Where to next?  Any suggestions?