Our first visitor from Cali!

We've been in the house for two weeks now (wow, is that it? seems like longer) and we had our first visitor from California. We were so excited to have a guest! The visit was too short, but otherwise we all had a great time. Note: if you come to Boston, keep in mind that a day and a half does not allow you enough meals to try all the food you really need to try out here.


Since D wasn't here very long we did just a few things on Saturday. We did a short Harvard tour in the afternoon, but in the morning we went apple picking. Well, to be more accurate, we really went Asian pear picking because 95% of our bags were filled with Asian pears with just a few peaches and apples thrown in. What a cool farm to have so many different fruits in one place. They also have nectarines, strawberries, grapes, and pumpkins at varying times of year.


It was a gorgeous day on Saturday, which was lucky because it rained all day today. Fresh-picked fruit tastes even better on a day like that. Which is good, because it softened the blow of how much it all cost--$1.50/lb. x 40 lbs = $60 (that bag in the picture is only the first of two that we had). I'm a piggy. It was totally my fault because I couldn't stop picking all those Asian pears! In my defense, I was planning on giving a bunch away to my grandparents and my aunt and uncle. Really, that's why I did it. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! When we were kids they used to charge you by the bag and you could just fill it up regardless of how much it weighed. Nowadays even though we had a "fifteen pound" bag they weigh it at checkout and you pay whatever the actual weight is. Too bad they didn't have Asian pears to pick back in the day!

We can't wait for the rest of you to visit! Hope you had a good time, D!