Great Expectations

So Jared and I always get these ideas that are going to be such FUN DATES....then we go to do them and end up just feeling like "let's just quick do this and get home". I am not quite sure why we can't just enjoy things sometimes, but we can't. At least we are on the same page when it happens. Most recently we went to Robinette's & to Postma Farms to get Pumpkins.

Robinette's is this great apple orchard place that EVERYONE in Grand Rapids goes to when they are a kid. We thought it would be fun to go get cider and donuts and walk around the orchard. So we set out with this great idea of walking hand in hand sipping cider and munching on freshly made donuts, and of course my favorite thing to do there...watch the apples being squished and the cider being made. Great idea right?

In actuality we pull up to MASSES of people, kids running and screaming everywhere, parking all over the place, a line winding out of the building and through one of the parking lots to get cider & donuts. Side note - if you know me at all I am not a fan of crowds...they just make me uncomfortable (unless I am on a mission going somewhere, but just to stand around in... NO THANK YOU!) also you would know that I am not a big "kid" person, usually I find them loud and annoying and out of control, your kids are fine from a distance, I just don't want to be surrounded by them. So immediately I am NOT loving this. We actually thought about leaving right then and there, but Jared's drive for fresh donuts made him commit to "THE LINE" Duke and I stood there for a little while, but then we headed off to part of the orchard that I am 99% sure you are not supposed to go in - but since it was the only place without 1,000 people we went there anyway. Duke and I wandered the orchard while Jared battled the screaming kids, teens talking constantly on their phones, and parents trying to corral everyone, to get his donuts. About 20 minutes later he made it out alive with donuts and cider in tow. The donuts were great and after that we even managed to walk around in the orchard for a few minutes all together.

So this past weekend we ventured to Postma Farms (or Post Farms?) to get our pumpkins. We thought we were going to a U-pick pumpkin place....turns out it was like Robinette's on crack! Starting off with parking CHAOS and driving through huge mud puddles. We somehow ended up walking in the back way - which we didn't know at the time. We saw the field of pumpkins in the distance and started to walk towards it. Noticing that everyone else was getting hay rides out there we thought "bah we don't need a ride" until we got a little down the path and noticed a mud field that we would have to walk through to get there - we headed back to the line to get on the hay ride and noticed a sign that said "wristbands must be visible" well we had no idea what that meant so we kept walking, there was a practical carnival going on, with all the screaming kids and frantic parents all over again. We exited through the entrance where is said "MUST HAVE WRISTBAND BEYOND THIS POINT" - clearly their security was not on point. Finally making it to the "front" we noticed that there was a small area of pumpkins already picked that you could buy...needless to say we did that. You would have had to pay ME at that point to get on the hay ride with all of these crazy people, walk in mud up to my knees to find a pumpkin and then BACK on the hay ride...no thanks.

I also have been exhausted lately from being prego so Jared had to double time walk back to the car in the massive parking lot with tons of mud with his pumpkin as I slowly dragged behind barely able to lift mine. Being the good hubby that he is he came back and rescued me and took me home to nap :)

I know I will have to start doing these things in the future when we have kids, but I am taking time to enjoy NOT doing them right now. I enjoy doing many other fun things that other people don't - just chaos with lots of people aren't my thing.