{"id":382,"date":"2006-09-12T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=349"},"modified":"2006-09-12T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T01:00:53","slug":"hard-to-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Hard to beat…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went into this past weekend knowing it would be busy, but didn’t know how satisfying all the *busy*\u00a0would be.\u00a0\u00a0It started\u00a0with my first free<\/em> pre-natal yoga class with Claudia,\u00a0and was almost immediately followed by a manicure with Sonja and Michelle at The Spa. The weekend was already fantastic – and it wasn’t even 5 o’clock yet.<\/p>\n

\"dsc_0066_sm.gif\"<\/a>Sunday was just as amazing.\u00a0 We got up early and hopped in the car with Sonja and Mark and headed\u00a0out to meet Michelle and Gary at the apple orchard!\u00a0 I haven’t been apple picking since I was a young cub and I was excited to replicate a photo my mom took the last time I was there.\u00a0 Though I remember the trees being a lot bigger when I was six…which is obvious…but still worth mentioning.\u00a0 Most of the apples we saw were reachable with both feet on the ground; the ladders were almost unnecessary.\u00a0 That is until Sonja and I went on the hunt and found the perfect one for my picture.\u00a0 Et voila!<\/p>\n

So, back to the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u00a0got on the tractor\u00a0and drove out toward the red speckled trees.\u00a0 We had the choice of Spartans, MacIntoshs or Lobos and after a quick lesson about how to pick them and which were best for what purpose, we were off!\u00a0 We quickly filled up 2 and a half bags (and ate 1 or or 3\u00a0pieces in the process) and then hit the stand for freshly baked\u00a0donuts.\u00a0 Just-picked apples are delectable.\u00a0 So are warm donuts.<\/p>\n

\"dsc_0081_sm.gif\"<\/a>The day was capped off with a downtown photo-taking mission (my favourite part), an apple-centric dinner, which the girls prepared while watching Sixteen Candles.<\/em>\u00a0 Each dish we chose had fresh apples as an ingredient, and somehow no one complained about being appled-out, even after they had finished their second or third helping.\u00a0 We\u00a0served an apple and broccoli salad, baby carrots glazed with apple, porkloin with and apple and prune cream sauce and we finished with apple crisp.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gary claimed it was the best meal he’d had in 2006.\u00a0 I might agree.\u00a0 Plus it was fun to break in our dining room table and guarantee that the boys treat us to the same kind of meal in a few weeks…though something tells me theirs will involve less preparation and more burgers.<\/p>\n

Some of my favourite moments……<\/p>\n

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I went into this past weekend knowing it would be busy, but didn’t know how satisfying all the *busy*\u00a0would be.\u00a0\u00a0It started\u00a0with my first free pre-natal yoga class with Claudia,\u00a0and was almost immediately followed by a manicure with Sonja and Michelle at The Spa. The weekend was already fantastic – and it wasn’t even 5 o’clock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}