Apple picking and hiking at 5000 feet elevation

Well, we took our annual trek up to Oak Glen, CA today. It's an apple orchard at the top of a 5000 foot mountain. So...apple picking is also a hike.

Everything was fine and everyone was excited until we stepped out of the car into the fresh crisp 50 degree, thin, mountain air. At this point our DRAMA queen Isabella decided she felt horrible and she couldn't breathe and she might pass out. After 30 minutes of hiking up to the apples we wanted she wouldn't even smile and decided to just sit on the ground and not move. I stayed with her in an open field while Rami took the rest of the kids up to fill the $30 box we bought.

As we were sitting on the rock waiting, Isabella complained about nature (she's going to be so much fun camping next week...i can tell). She complained about the lizard on the rock next to her, she moved and sat right in a fire ant pile...complained about that and moved, then sat it a sticker patch. Then it was the bumble bee buzzing near by and the wolf scat and the cold air. Finally she just laid her head against my chest and stood while we waited for the rest of the family to come back.

I heard that the gang that completed the hike even played apple bowling, apple tennis, apple soccer, apple golf and apple music with the bad apples on the ground.

Quentin had quite a few miss-adventures and fell about 10 times today. Some of his falling was caught on camera---because I'm a good mom like that.

We hiked back to the car and once we got down to the farm store Isabella was back to normal (of course). She started smiling again and laughing.

We stopped at Mimi's Cafe for lunch and then we headed South to Temecula for the pumpkin patch. Well, Rami knew a "shortcut" which turned out to be a bumpy, curvy, back road, rural drive for one hour. Good thing we had plenty of gas or I would have been stressing out.

We finally made it to the pumpkin patch. Had a good time int he corn maze, tractor ride and pony rides, posed with some pumpkins and we were off.

It's been a long 8 hour day and I took 163 pictures of our adventures.