A Visit to Grammy and Poppy's and a Side Trip to Plymouth Orchards

On Saturday, the boys and I headed up to Ann Arbor to visit Grammy and Poppy. Colin was very excited and woke up around 6 AM, and immediately wanted to leave. Much to his chagrin, he had to wait for the rest of us to get ready. Once we were finally on the road he showed us that he has officially started the dreaded "Are we there yet?" mantra. His version, however, goes something like "Me see Poppy's house? Mama see Poppy's house?" It was cute the first 5 times.

While we were in the area, we also made an impromptu trip to Plymouth Orchards and got the requisite pictures of the kids posing as the worm in the apple. Now, Chris and I had just been discussing how we felt that as much as we love MacQueen's Orchard, we wished it was a little more like Plymouth's because Plymouth's has more for the kids to do such as the big cutouts to stand behind for pictures and the farm animals. Apparently, we were mistaken. According to Colin, Juice-Man trumps all. The kid was so disappointed that he couldn't see Juice-Man and he kept trying to dodge in every open door he saw to try and find someone making juice. We tried to explain that we only see Juice-Man at our orchard at home, and we tried to distract with the animals, but he wanted nothing to do with it. Thankfully, he still enjoyed his donut and cider. Which brings me to an observation I made about the two orchards. I've decided that Plymouth definitely has the better cider, but MacQueen's donuts win, hands-down. Yum!