The first weekend in October is a Lindau family tradition. This was our 15th year taking in the sights, sounds and smells of Apple Festival in Bayfield. We began going the year before Logan was born and (eeek!) now he is in high school.
Our trip begins on Friday with a 6 hour drive from Janesville to Bayfield and a warm, relaxing stay in (Als' Aunt and Uncle) Shirl & Hans' loft. Saturday we head downtown for shopping and family pictures on the pier. My first purchase each year is an Applefest coffee mug from Eckles'. (I have 12 of them in my classroom.)We eat every variety of apple you can imagine in every form you can imagine, from carmel apples and apple pie, to apple sundaes, apple chai and even the infamous 'Apple Orgasm!' In the evening we watch all the college football games and this year rooted for the ill-fated Cubs, White Sox, and Brewers as well.
Sunday we head off to the orchards to climb in trees and pick apples. We bought apples and apple cider donuts at Erickson's and two cases of wine from Hausers'. We returned to downtown for some last minute shopping and to get our usual seats to watch the big Apple Fest parade.
After the parade, we head back up to Hans & Shirl's place, and enjoy some delicious chicken and dumpling soup (and one more apple dumpling) before starting our trip back home and counting the days until we return.
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