Center Grove Orchard

Fall is our favorite season. This year I thought we should go to one of the local apple orchards. We went to Center Gove which is about 20 minutes away from our house. The orchard is family owned and they had a lot of different activities that adults could also participate in. The admission wasn't to bad and there was a lot of different activities that you could participate in. They had a storybook area with the classics. I really enjoyed seeing the 3 little pigs houses. In the stick and hay house there was a little fox painted on the window. I appreciate the attention to details. They also had a one room school house that you could walk through.

The old women who lived in a shoe

Peter Piper Pumpkin eater

At the one room school house

Guy being a cowboy and roping a calf

Bouncing on the pillow

There were little bouncy horses that you could also play with, but we skipped those. Guy's favorite part were the tractors that you could peddle around on the dirt track. One thing we both enjoyed was the giant inflatable bouncing pillow. There were a few younger kids on the pillow we bounced on, so we tried to not bounce too high and bounce them off.

There was also a slide that you could go on. So naturally we had to play on it. The orchard had apple trees and a pumpkin patch where you could pick your own pumpkin. In order to get out there you needed to take a hay ride. On the hay ride they had little sights along the way. I enjoyed seeing some of the animals they had decorating the route up to the trees and pumpkin patch. Next to the pumpkin patch was a corn maze.

Neither of us realized that you were suppose to pick up a map that had clues and markers on it when you first entered the park. So we had the map of what the overall corn maze looked like on it, but no idea on where to go. Guy loved that this created a fun and different challenge. He took the map and led us through the course in about 30 minutes. Not bad considering the corn maze was over 4 acres.

Allison riding the pedal tractor

After the large corn maze, he had me lead us through the kiddie maze. I can successfully say we didn't get lost and I navigated us through.

We then walked over to the pumpkin patch and started looking around. We weren't planning on getting a pumpkin but we found some sweet looking pumpkins. Guy really liked this big green one, but we decided on the perfectly orange round pumpkin. However, we saw another couple with this awesome white pumpkin.

Guy with our pumpkin

We rode the hay ride back to the main area. We toured and looked around the gift shop/store. We tried apple salsa, peanut butter and apple butter. It was all good but a little interesting. Center Grove makes their own cider doughnuts and cider slushies. We decided that we should try it and we split one of each. I loved the slushie! The doughnut wasn't bad either...just to much sugar for me. We ended up not picking any apples this year since we already have a ton left over from woodbadge at home.

In the corn maze

Center Grove Orchard 2015

Later that night we came back and watched the second movie in the divergent series; Insurgent. Guy was a little lost since it's been a while since he's seen Divergent and he didn't read the book. We both enjoyed the movie though.