Sunday Afternoon in Fall

Sunday, October 11th was a rare time in the fall of my life! Why, you ask? The Chicago Bears had a Bye week which meant I got my husband to do something on a Sunday in fall that didn't involve beer pong, grilling food or rally shots! Much to his dismay (although when we got there he had fun!) we took a drive with my brother Jim and his love, Kelsey to Hobart, Indiana's County Line Orchard.  Besides being a gorgeously sunny morning, it felt so good to be participating in the season with the ones I love the most!

County Line was packed, took us a while to find parking but my husband has a horse shoe up his butt so we ended up with a spot right in front, which is really convenient because you end up making a few trips to the trunk to stow your loot!  We picked pumpkins & gords, drank cider and browsed in the country store. The place was so alive with families. They always have live music on the weekends and you can eat lunch because they have homemade BBQ!  County Line Orchard is known for their homemade donuts - and this time of year the special is the apple cinamon and pumpkin. They are both to die for!

We met my cousin Bob and Dina later and we journeyed to the corn maze. The admission to the maze and the tracker pull ride to the maze is $7 per adult. You wait for the tracker to pick up the group and he'll take you thru the orchards and explain about the apples and such.  If you want to get dropped off at a certain grove he'll stop for you.  The most popular apple stops were Gala & Honey Crisp.  The honey crisp apple is the most amazingly sweet and refreshing & crisp apple I've ever had.   I am hooked! 

We had a good time in the maze - they give you a map but we weren't all that good at reading it. It was more about us getting lost in the maze and feeling like kiddies again!  Not totally sure if I would bring small kids to the maze however.  As we were walking in there was a mother who had been waiting for one of her children for an hour. 
All her other kids were out of the maze so she was negotiating getting back in the maze without a bracelet to locate her child.  Yikes!!  I made a mental note on that one!   Last year we did the maze at night when it was dark - which had its charm!  Being able to see this time around, especially the mud and puddles was helpful, but I must admit, not quite as much excitement!It was the best non bears Sunday I've had in a long time! We got lost in the maze and lost in the season!