Yum, Yum, Strawberries!

Yesterday I mentioned to Mitch that Holly and I might go take the kids strawberry picking next week, and he was intrigued and wanted to go check the place out with the kids too. So this morning we packed up the kids and went to High Hand Nursery in Loomis to pick some strawberries. I'd never been to this place before, and I'm really glad that I had a chance to go there and check it out. The nursery is absolutely gorgeous (some day when the boys don't need all that grass to play football on, those lovely winding pathways will be in my backyard too!), and before we even picked any berries the boys had fun running around all the paths and looking at all the different kinds of flowers and water features.

In the back of the nursery they have a good sized area where they let the kids pick little buckets of strawberries for free. There was no one there when we got there (although there were quite a few people there by the time we left), and there were plenty of strawberries to be had. Sawyer got the hang of picking the berries rather quickly, and he'd pick one or two, put them in his basket and then eat them. Two more in the bucket and then time to eat again, over and over again. Once Sutton realized there were strawberries growing on the plants, he pretty much just decided to eat his way down the row, ripe or not, green stuff and all. The kid was definitely in his element! Later on we stopped to look at the nursery's impressive koi pond, and all the fish gathered right underneath where the boys were looking down on them just a short distance away...and then one HUGE fish jumped out of the water and got really close to Sawyer's face and splashed him a little bit. He jumped back about a mile and was pretty much leery of any more koi for the rest of the time we were there. It was actually pretty hysterical to watch. We all had some really nice family-time there, so two thumbs up to Holly for mentioning it to me, and now it's time to plan another day to go back there!