Christine Chang Photography

Happy Friday!  I am finally caught up in my posts.  This past Saturday some of the “adults” took our youth group (I’m with the church kids every Saturday evening, trying to keep them out of trouble) raspberry/blackberry picking.

I was going to take them strawberry picking, but I was two days too late.  Since it has been so hot in LA a kind lady in Carlsbad informed me that the strawberries were beginning to melt so they had to pick the rest.  So I found Underwood farms (it was that or another place that offered to take you around the farm on a “wagon tour” and then they let you pick 1 watermelon, so I decided to place my bets with this place)

I think I was more excited than all of the guys, but you can pick vegetables too!  The consensus for us city folk:  raspberries are fun to pick, blackberries hurt a bit more and stain.  We were supposed to give the fruit we picked to the convalescent home, but the raspberries were a bit sour and we didn’t want to shock the old folks or have them remember us for sour fruit. 

All in all, it was a really fun day.  Oh yeah, and for the first time in my life I saw an Alpaca!  That’s all.